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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
Light
Always
Shadows
Caught
Shadow
Eye

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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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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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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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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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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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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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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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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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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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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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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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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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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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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
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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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