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...I dabble in causes and effects.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Dabble
Effects
Causes

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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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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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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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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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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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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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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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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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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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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate, said Elphaba. See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?
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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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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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