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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
Ones
Ways
Given
Live
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Superiors

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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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All our lives are activity without meaning we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.
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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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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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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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