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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Mine
People
Everywhere
Mines

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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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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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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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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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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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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
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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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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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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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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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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.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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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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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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