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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
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Everywhere
Mines
Mine
People

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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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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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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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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
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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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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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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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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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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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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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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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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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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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