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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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Monsters
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Exist
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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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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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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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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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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