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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
Maybe
Evil
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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
Gregory Maguire
All our lives are activity without meaning we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.
Gregory Maguire
Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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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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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
Gregory Maguire
They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
Gregory Maguire
And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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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?
Gregory Maguire
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.
Gregory Maguire
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?
Gregory Maguire
How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
Gregory Maguire
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
Gregory Maguire
Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
Gregory Maguire
So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
Gregory Maguire
I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
Gregory Maguire
I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
Gregory Maguire
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
Gregory Maguire
Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
Gregory Maguire
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
Gregory Maguire