1. "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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Quote by Gregory Maguire
2. "Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it."
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Quote by Gregory Maguire
3. "Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without."
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4. "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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5. "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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Quote by Gregory Maguire
6. "The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime."
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7. "Weren't you just doing the same thing, trying to maximize what had in order to get what you wanted? 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 anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of."
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8. "Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?"
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9. "And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet."
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10. "Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away."
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Quote by Gregory Maguire