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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
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner! What? She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER! Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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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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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
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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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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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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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You're fun to look at, decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. Fun? he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun, Elphaba said. The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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