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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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Wells
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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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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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
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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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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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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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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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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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All our lives are activity without meaning we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.
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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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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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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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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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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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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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