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Happy endings are still endings.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense
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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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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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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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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
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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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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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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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