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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Struggle
Crosses
Winning
Requires
Lying
Matters
Vigilance
Universe
Anger
Adjust
Woman
Eternal
Slight
Matter
Cold
Wins
Men
Dead
Offense
Changed
Cross

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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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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
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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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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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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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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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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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