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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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Small
Lasts
Last
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Still
Madhouse
Madhouses

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Happy endings are still endings.
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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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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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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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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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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 times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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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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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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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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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
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