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

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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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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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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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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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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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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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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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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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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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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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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 let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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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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Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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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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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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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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