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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
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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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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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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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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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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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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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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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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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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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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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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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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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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