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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Blind
Dark
Learn
Light
Time

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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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...I dabble in causes and effects.
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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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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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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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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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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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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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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 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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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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