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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
Light
Time
Blind
Dark
Learn

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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
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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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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.
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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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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
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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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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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The world was floods above and fire below
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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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