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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Young
Together
Still
Done
Piecing
Believe
Puzzle
Puzzles
Especially
Stills

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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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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
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Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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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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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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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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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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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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