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That's all I want- to do no harm.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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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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...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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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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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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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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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
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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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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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