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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
Directions
Road
Follow
Hope

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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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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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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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No one is exempt from grief.
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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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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