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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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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
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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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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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No one is exempt from grief.
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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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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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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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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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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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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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She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner! What? She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER! Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.
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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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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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