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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
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Lost
Whole
Giving
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
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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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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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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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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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No one is exempt from grief.
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I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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Are you the dart? he said. Are you the knife? The fuse? She said (though he wasn't convinced): My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.
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