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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Albany
New York
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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.
Gregory Maguire
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.
Gregory Maguire
It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
Gregory Maguire
Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
Gregory Maguire
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.
Gregory Maguire
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.
Gregory Maguire
The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
Gregory Maguire
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
Gregory Maguire
My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
Gregory Maguire
...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
Gregory Maguire
No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
Gregory Maguire
The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
Gregory Maguire
So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
Gregory Maguire
There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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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.
Gregory Maguire
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
Gregory Maguire
I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
Gregory Maguire
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.
Gregory Maguire
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.
Gregory Maguire