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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Thing
Almost
Read
May

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No one is exempt from grief.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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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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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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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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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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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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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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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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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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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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