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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
Always
Shadows
Caught
Shadow
Eye
Light

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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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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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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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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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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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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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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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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?
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The world was floods above and fire below
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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 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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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
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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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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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