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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
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Albany
New York
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Hope
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Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
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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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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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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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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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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
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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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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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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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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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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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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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