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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
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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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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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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Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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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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I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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