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No one is exempt from grief.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Exempt
Bereavement
Sadness
Grief

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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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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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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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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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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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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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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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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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The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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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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I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
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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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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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