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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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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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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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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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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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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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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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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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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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That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
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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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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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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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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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