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The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
Anew
Soon
Ready
World

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It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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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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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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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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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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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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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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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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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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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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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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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
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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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