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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Albany
New York
Nannies
Ugly
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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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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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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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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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
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