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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Come
Like
Critters
Crunchy
Fried
Divine
Littles
Little

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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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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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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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...I dabble in causes and effects.
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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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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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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.
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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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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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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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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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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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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