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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
Hurt
Responsibility
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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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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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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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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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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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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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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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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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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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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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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
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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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