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I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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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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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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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
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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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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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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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The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.
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...I dabble in causes and effects.
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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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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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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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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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