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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Hopes
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Happenings
Happening
History
Keep
Retiring
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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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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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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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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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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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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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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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Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
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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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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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