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

Gregory Maguire

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

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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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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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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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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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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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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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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
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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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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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