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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Albany
New York
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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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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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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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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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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
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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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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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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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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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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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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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