Gregory Maguire Quotes

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• The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

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  Eye, Light, Shadow

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

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  Secret, Remember, Breathe

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• Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

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  Book, Fall, Writing

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• Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

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  Believe

  "Fictional character: The Wizard". "Wicked", Broadway musical, 2003.

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• The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

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  Elements, World, Juxtaposition

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• The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

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  Errors, Soul, Body

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• As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

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  Long, People, Why Not

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• There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.

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  Hate, World, Too Much

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.247, Hachette UK

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• People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

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  Fake People, Evil, Way

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• Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

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  Bird, Horizon, Maps

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• Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

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  Animal, People, Accepting

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• I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

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  Tree, Leafs, Forgettable

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.173, Harper Collins

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• Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

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  Growth, Reactions, Mets

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• Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Wake Up

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• Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

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  Struggle, Devil, Doe

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

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• Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

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  Understanding, Mystery, Accepting

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• Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.

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  Children, Wicked, Green

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• She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

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  Differences, Evil, Might

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• quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

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  Thinking, People, World

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• No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

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  Destiny, Choices, Worst

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.396, Hachette UK

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• You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming.' Boq held his breath. But you're little!' she concluded. 'You're a Munchkin, for god's sake!' He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little.

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  Sweet, Giving Up, Thinking

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.115, Harper Collins

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• Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

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  Believe, Opposites, Luck

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

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  Evil, World, This World

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• at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder

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  Giving, Cold, Shoulders

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• I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

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  Book, Years, Wicked

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