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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Trust
Pepper
Doubt
Peppers
Gone
Fails
Anything
Mad
Ever
Throw
Come
Air
Failing

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