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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
Ill
Whether
Wells
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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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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Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
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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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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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