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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
– Gregory Maguire

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  1. We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out. – Gregory Maguire
  2. It turns out the mark of a happy life isn’t staying just one step ahead of the grim reaper. It’s knowing you’re strong. – Robyn Carr
  3. Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech. – Stepan Chapman
  4. These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments. – Brenda Sutton Rose
  5. And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe. – Gregory Maguire
  6. The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace. – Gregory Maguire
  7. Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do. – Gregory Maguire
  8. O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI’d lose my ????ing mind! – Gregory Maguire
  9. It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement. – Gregory Maguire
  10. To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward. – Gregory Maguire
  11. Where I’m from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren’t true… we call it history. – Gregory Maguire
  12. Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history – Gregory Maguire
  13. Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. – Gregory Maguire
  14. Come what may and hell to pay. – Gregory Maguire
  15. Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. – Gregory Maguire
  16. The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. – Gregory Maguire
  17. The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. – Gregory Maguire
  18. But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off. – Gregory Maguire
  19. I like the sound of words, but I don’t ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read. – Gregory Maguire
  20. A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we’ve seen previously. We should know better. – Gregory Maguire
  21. Oh, everything is gorgeous once it’s gone. – Gregory Maguire
  22. What is strange is that we may remember what we have done, but not always why we did it. – Gregory Maguire
  23. If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it. – Gregory Maguire
  24. At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change. – Gregory Maguire
  25. There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one’s. – Gregory Maguire
  26. Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met – Gregory Maguire
  27. It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. – Gregory Maguire
  28. It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. – Gregory Maguire
  29. The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man. – Gregory Maguire
  30. You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. – Gregory Maguire
  31. Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents. – Gregory Maguire
  32. By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret – Gregory Maguire
  33. Isn’t that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger– – Gregory Maguire
  34. 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. – Gregory Maguire
  35. Are you an aberration to your species?’ she cried. ‘Cats don’t look for approval! – Gregory Maguire
  36. Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. – Charles F Glassman
  37. Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace. – lisabeth Badinter
  38. One who turns his face towards Bhagwan [God], turns towards him; he will receive the bliss and the light. God does not do anything else. – Dada Bhagwan
  39. Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  40. Faith turns mountains into pebbles. Fear turns pebbles into mountains. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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