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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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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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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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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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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 am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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