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Gregory Maguire, né le 9 juin 1954 à Albany dans l'État de New York, est un auteur américain.

Il est l'auteur des romans Wicked : La Véritable Histoire de la méchante sorcière de l'Ouest , Les Petites Sorcières et de nombreux autres romans ou livres de jeunesse. Beaucoup des romans de Gregory Maguire apparaissent comme des présentations revisitées d'univers pour enfants. Par exemple, dans Wicked, l'image du pays d'Oz est différente et la méchante sorcière de l'Ouest est transformée en un personnage féminin sympathique, Elphaba, opprimée par la société et à laquelle s'identifie le lecteur. Wicked fut présentée en comédie musicale l'année de sa parution et connut un succès remarquable aux États-Unis. Sa suite, Son of a Witch, a paru en 2005 aux États-Unis.

Maguire reçut son Ph.D. en Littérature anglaise et américaine à Tufts University. Il fut professeur et codirecteur à Simmons College Center pour l'étude de la littérature de jeunesse de 1979 à 1985. En 1987, il fut le cofondateur de Children's Literature New England. Il est toujours codirecteur du CLNE, bien que l'organisation ait annoncé son intention de fermer.

Il est marié au peintre Andy Newman et a adopté trois enfants.

✵ 9. juin 1954  •  Autres noms גרגורי מגווייר
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Gregory Maguire: Citations en anglais

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

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

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

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“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

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“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 livre 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 livre Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

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

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Gregory Maguire livre 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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“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 livre A Lion Among Men

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

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Gregory Maguire livre Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

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

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“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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“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 livre 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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“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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“Even God used silence as a strategy.”

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“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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“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 livre Son of a Witch

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“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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