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Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Endings
Happy
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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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The world was floods above and fire below
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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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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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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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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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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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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
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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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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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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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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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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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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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