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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Color
Thought
Human
Humans
Nanny
Nannies
Ugly

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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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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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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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I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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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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The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
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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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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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