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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Unnamed
Correct
Remains
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I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
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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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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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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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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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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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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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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
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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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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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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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