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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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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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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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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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