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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
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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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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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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense
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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
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