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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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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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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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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
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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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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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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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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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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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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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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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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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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?
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We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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All our lives are activity without meaning we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
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