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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

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Monsters, World, Birth

Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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That's all I want- to do no harm.

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Want, Harm

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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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Magic, Stories, Erode

Gregory Maguire (2010). “What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy”, p.115, Candlewick Press

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I learned failure early and mastered it.

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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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Leaving, World, Littles

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How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

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Self, Deception, Poetic

Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.163, Harper Collins

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The storm dropped a house on her head.

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House, Storm

Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.359, Hachette UK

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I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

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Flying, Rolling, Tasks

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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

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Long, Awful, Long Time

Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.100, Harper Collins

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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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Loneliness, Names, Sorrow

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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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Book, Writing, Mosquitoes

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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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Long, Wicked, Witch

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The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).

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Games, Live Your Life, Secret

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Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.

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Noticing

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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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Thinking, Guy, Way

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...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

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Children, Soul, Liberty

Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

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Math, Hard Times, Two

Gregory Maguire (2010). “What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy”, p.62, Candlewick Press

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I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

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Writing, Understanding, Sloth

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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

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Monk, Ancestor, Knows

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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

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Wise, War, Home

Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.24, Harper Collins

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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

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Children, Humility, World

Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

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Lying, Healthy, Vengeance

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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

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Needs, Wonderland, Wonder

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Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.

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Forgiving, Way

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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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Love, Expression, Lust

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Born: June 9, 1954
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