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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
Forgettable
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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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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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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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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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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