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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 future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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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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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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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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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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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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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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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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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
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That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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