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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
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Albany
New York
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.
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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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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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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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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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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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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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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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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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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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The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.
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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
Gregory Maguire
She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner! What? She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER! Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.
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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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