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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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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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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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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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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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Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
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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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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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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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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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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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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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