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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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It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.
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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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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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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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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
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I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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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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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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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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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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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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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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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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