Gregory Maguire Quotes - Page 3

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• Of course. You get everything from books.

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  Book, Courses

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• I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.

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  Hate, Trouble, Scarecrow

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Son of a Witch: Volume Two in The Wicked Years”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.

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  Losing, Language, Choke

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• It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

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  Retirement, Retiring, Despite

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• Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

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  Immortality

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• It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.

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  Summer, Flower, Winter

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister: A Novel”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• It was deliciously pagan.

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  Pagan

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.79, Harper Collins

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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.

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  Mind, Care, Approval

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• Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

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  Art, Moving, Hands

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.130, Harper Collins

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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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  Evil, Giving, Normal

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• You confuse not speaking with not listening.

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  Listening

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.54, Harper Collins

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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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  Hurt, Responsibility, Past

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• And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

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  Girl, Needs, Sides

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• 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.

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  Voice, Now And Then, Ends

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• [Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

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  Mean, Wife, Population

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

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  Leaving, Mind, Way

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.104, Harper Collins

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• That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

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  Sadness, Wonderful, Strangeness

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

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  Guilt, World, Faces

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• Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.

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  Life, Flower, Hug

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• I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

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  Mean, Blood, Evil

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

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  Color, Nannies, Ugly

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.

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  Love, Religious, Struggle

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• When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.

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  Light, Childhood, Soul

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• One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

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  Struggle, Choices, Wicked

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.250, Hachette UK

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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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  Lying, Struggle, Winning

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.310, Hachette UK

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