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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
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