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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
Writer
Albany
New York
Anew
Soon
Ready
World

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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
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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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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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No one is exempt from grief.
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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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You're fun to look at, decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. Fun? he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun, Elphaba said. The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-
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