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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

“It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Son of a Witch

Origine: Son of a Witch

“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”

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Gregory Maguire libro A Lion Among Men

Origine: A Lion Among Men

“There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.”

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Gregory Maguire Out of Oz

Origine: Out of Oz

“He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.”

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Gregory Maguire libro A Lion Among Men

Origine: A Lion Among Men

“Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.”

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Gregory Maguire libro A Lion Among Men

Origine: A Lion Among Men

“A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.”

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“The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.”

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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

“The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.”

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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

“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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Gregory Maguire libro Son of a Witch

Origine: Son of a Witch

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

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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

“When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.”

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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

“Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.”

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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 take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Origine: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Origine: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.”

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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 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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Gregory Maguire libro Son of a Witch

Origine: Son of a Witch

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

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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

“Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.”

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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

“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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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

“Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.”

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Gregory Maguire libro A Lion Among Men

Origine: A Lion Among Men

“Begging your pardon, sir…. One population can't make peace with another by force.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Son of a Witch

Origine: Son of a Witch

“That's all I want- to do no harm.”

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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

“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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Origine: What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy

“I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.”

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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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