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In the end, all disguises must drop.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Ends
Must
Disguises
Disguise
Drop

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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
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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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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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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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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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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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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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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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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.
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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
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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.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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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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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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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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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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