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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
Doubt
Pepper
Gone
Peppers
Anything
Fails
Ever
Mad
Come
Throw
Air
Failing
Trust

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