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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
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Albany
New York
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Fun
Maybe
Evil
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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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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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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...I dabble in causes and effects.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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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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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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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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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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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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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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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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