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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Even
Mind
Loosing
Lady
Protect
Jobs

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Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
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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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I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
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The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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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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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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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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