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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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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
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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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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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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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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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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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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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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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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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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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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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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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