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You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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Speaking
Listening

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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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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
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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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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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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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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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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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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner! What? She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER! Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.
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