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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
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Albany
New York
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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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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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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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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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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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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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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 were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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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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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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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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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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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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No one is exempt from grief.
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