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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
Well

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We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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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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