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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Wishing
Rain
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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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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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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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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
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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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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 was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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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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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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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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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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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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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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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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