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I learned failure early and mastered it.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Failure
Learned
Mastered
Early

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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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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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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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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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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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