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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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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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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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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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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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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate, said Elphaba. See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?
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