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Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
Unnamed
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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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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?
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Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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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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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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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 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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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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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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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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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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