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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
People
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Defer
Anything
Bestows
Reason
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Live
Hardly
Might
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Good
Opinion
Iris
Life
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Irises

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