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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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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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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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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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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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No one is exempt from grief.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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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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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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