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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Controls
Destiny
Written
Stars
Others
Remember
Nothing

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Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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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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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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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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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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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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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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The world was floods above and fire below
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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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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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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That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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