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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Entertainments
Horrendous
Civilized
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
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I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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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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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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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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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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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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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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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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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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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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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
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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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They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
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