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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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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
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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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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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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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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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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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No one is exempt from grief.
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
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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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I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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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.
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