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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
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Albany
New York
Humans
Nanny
Nannies
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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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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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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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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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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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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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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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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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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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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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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
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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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