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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
Writer
Albany
New York
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Whether
Wells
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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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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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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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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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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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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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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 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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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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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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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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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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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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