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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Blue
Fields
Together
Diamonds
Diamond
Field
Moved
Green

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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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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
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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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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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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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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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