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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
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Happening
History
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Retiring
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Retirement
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
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Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate, said Elphaba. See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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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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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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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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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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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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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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Are you the dart? he said. Are you the knife? The fuse? She said (though he wasn't convinced): My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.
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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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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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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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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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