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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Men
Dead
Offense
Changed
Cross
Struggle
Crosses
Winning
Requires
Lying
Matters
Vigilance
Universe
Anger
Adjust
Woman
Eternal
Slight
Matter
Cold
Wins

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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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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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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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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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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 controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
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