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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
Whatever
Believe
Opposite
Believed
Opposites
Luck

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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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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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Are you the dart? he said. Are you the knife? The fuse? She said (though he wasn't convinced): My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.
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They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
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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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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate, said Elphaba. See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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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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I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
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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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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
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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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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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