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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Opposites
Luck
Whatever
Believe
Opposite
Believed

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All our lives are activity without meaning we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.
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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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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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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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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
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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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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
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I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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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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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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