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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.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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Overrated
Satisfy
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Approval
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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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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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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