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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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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
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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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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?
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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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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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The world was floods above and fire below
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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