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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
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Albany
New York
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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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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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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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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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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 learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
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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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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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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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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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