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Happy endings are still endings.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Albany
New York
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Happy
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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
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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.
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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
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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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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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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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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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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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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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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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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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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
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