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Gregory Maguire è uno scrittore statunitense.

Dopo il diploma alla State University of New York ad Albany ed il dottoratato in Letteratura inglese ed Americana alla Tufts University,ha insegnato per alcuni anni Letteratura per ragazzi e nel 1986 ha fondato il Childern's Literature New England, un'organizzazione non profit che promuove la lettura fra i giovanissimi.

Autore di molti libri per bambini, ha pubblicato cinque bestseller per adulti, fra cui Strega

Vive nel Massachusetts.

✵ 9. Giugno 1954  •  Altri nomi גרגורי מגווייר
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Gregory Maguire: Frasi in inglese

“In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Origine: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.”

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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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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Origine: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.”

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Gregory Maguire Out of Oz

Origine: Out of Oz

“The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Origine: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“Always the bridesmaid, never the bride."
Always the godfather, never the god".”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.”

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“A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.”

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Gregory Maguire libro A Lion Among Men

Origine: A Lion Among Men

“The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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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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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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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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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Origine: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Origine: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.”

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Origine: Mirror Mirror

“She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!"

What?"

She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!"

Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.”

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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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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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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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“Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Origine: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Even God used silence as a strategy.”

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Origine: Mirror Mirror

“Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she…”

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“I learned failure early and mastered it.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Son of a Witch

Origine: Son of a Witch

“Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing.
If one could drown in the grass… it might be the best way to die.”

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“We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.”

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“The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Origine: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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