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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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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
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The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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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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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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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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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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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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