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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 was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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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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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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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
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I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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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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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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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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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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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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...I dabble in causes and effects.
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It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
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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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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
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