Gregory Maguire Quotes - Page 7

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• No one is exempt from grief.

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  Grief, Sadness, Bereavement

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

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  Classical Music, Century, Late

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• In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.

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  Summer, Moonlight

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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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• I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

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  Art, Voice, Males

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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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• Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.

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  Stars, Blood, Shoes

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• And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.

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  World, Cold

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• For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

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  Art, Fun, Evil

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• Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.

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  Littles, Divine, Critters

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• It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

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  Loneliness, Bereavement, Bitter

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• While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

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  Party, Pride, Garden

  "Meet the Writers: Biography (from barnesandnoble.com)".

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• The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

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  Children, Dwarves, Mirrors

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• Happy endings are still endings.

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  Happy Endings, Stills

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

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  Noticing

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• To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows

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  People, Irises, Might

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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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  Believe, Together, Done

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• Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.

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  Knitting, Hands, Two

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• Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.

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  Practice, Imagination, Greed

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• ...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.

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  Thinking, Patterns, Different

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• I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

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  Events, Watches, World

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.401, Hachette UK

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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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• Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

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  Doubt, Energy, Conviction

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.232, Hachette UK

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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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  Fun, People, Giving

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.99, Harper Collins

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• His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.

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  Suicide, Home, Angel

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