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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Way
Drown
Grass
Dies
Thought
Best
Might

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...I dabble in causes and effects.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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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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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
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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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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
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