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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Live
Way
Superiors
Ones
Ways
Given

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It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.
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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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