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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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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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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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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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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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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
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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.
Gregory Maguire
No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
Gregory Maguire
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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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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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
Gregory Maguire
Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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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.
Gregory Maguire