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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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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
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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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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.
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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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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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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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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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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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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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