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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Dreamed
Leaving
Imagine
Littles
Little
World
Exposure

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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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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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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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