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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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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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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.
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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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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.
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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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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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You're fun to look at, decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. Fun? he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun, Elphaba said. The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-
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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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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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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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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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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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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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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 am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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