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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
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Wonderland
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
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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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Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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