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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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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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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
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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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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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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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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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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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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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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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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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