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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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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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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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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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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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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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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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