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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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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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Looked
Quite
Animal
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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 he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
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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
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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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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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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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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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
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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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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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