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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Shadows
Caught
Shadow
Eye
Light
Always

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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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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
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I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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