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That's all I want- to do no harm.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Albany
New York
Harm
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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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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
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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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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
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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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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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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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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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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
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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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It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.
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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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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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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 may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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