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Even God used silence as a strategy.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Used
Even
Strategy
Silence

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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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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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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
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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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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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I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
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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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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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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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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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