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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Albany
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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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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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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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All our lives are activity without meaning we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.
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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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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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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
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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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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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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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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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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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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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