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The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Comes
Doe
Locate
Might
Massively
Much
Colossal
Love
Bedtime
Wickedness
Elsewhere
Breakfast

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