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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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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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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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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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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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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
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She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner! What? She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER! Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.
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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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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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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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Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate, said Elphaba. See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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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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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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