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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Lost
Whole
Giving
Time
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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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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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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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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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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No one is exempt from grief.
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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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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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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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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
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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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