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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.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Good
Afraid
Difference
Wasn
Differences
Evil
Tell
Able
Resisting
Might
Merely

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