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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
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Albany
New York
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Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate, said Elphaba. See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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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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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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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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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?
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Are you the dart? he said. Are you the knife? The fuse? She said (though he wasn't convinced): My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.
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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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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
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No one is exempt from grief.
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