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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
Rain
Start
Wish
Wishing

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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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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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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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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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The world was floods above and fire below
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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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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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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 had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
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Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
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Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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