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Even God used silence as a strategy.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Silence
Used
Even
Strategy

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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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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.
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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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... 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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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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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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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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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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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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