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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Fried
Divine
Littles
Little
Come
Like
Critters
Crunchy

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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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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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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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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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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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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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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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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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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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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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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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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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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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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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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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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
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