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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Form
Fun
Maybe
Evil
Art

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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
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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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Happy endings are still endings.
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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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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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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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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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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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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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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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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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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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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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