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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Awful
Takes
Wrong
Experience
Long
Time
Proven

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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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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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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
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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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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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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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