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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
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Albany
New York
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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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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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