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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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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
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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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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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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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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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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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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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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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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 wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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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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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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