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Gregory Maguire es un escritor estadounidense, autor de las novelas: Wicked: Memorias de una Bruja Mala, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, y otras muchas dirigidas tanto a un público infantil como adulto.

Muchas de las novelas de este autor son revisiones de clásicos infantiles. Por ejemplo, en Wicked, transformó a la malvada bruja del Oeste de la novela

de L. Frank Baum, El maravilloso mago de Oz, en la compasiva y verde Elphaba; mientras que en Mirror, Mirror, realiza una relectura de Blancanieves. Por su parte, Wicked, se convirtió en un musical de gran éxito en Broadway.

Gregory Maguire cursó sus estudios universitarios en la Universidad del Estado de Nueva York en Albany y es doctor en Inglés y Literatura Americana por la Universidad Tufts. Entre 1979 y 1985, fue profesor y co-director del Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature. En 1987

cofundó la instiución Children's Literature New England.

Maguire está casado con el pintor Andy Newman, en uno de los primeros matrimonios homosexuales legales en Massachusetts y tienen dos hijos adoptados: Luke, Alex.[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 9. junio 1954  •  Otros nombres גרגורי מגווייר

Obras

Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala
Hijo de bruja
Hijo de bruja
Gregory Maguire
A Lion Among Men
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Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala
Hijo de bruja
Hijo de bruja
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A Lion Among Men
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Frases célebres de Gregory Maguire

“La gente que dice ser malvada no suele ser peor que el resto de nosotros -suspiró-. Pero la gente que dice ser buena, o mejor que los demás en algún aspecto, esa gente sí que es peligrosa.”

Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“Y allí se quedó la vieja y malvada Bruja, durante mucho, muchísimo tiempo.
—¿Ha salido alguna vez?
—Todavía no.”

Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“El cuerpo pide disculpas al alma por sus errores, y el alma pide perdón al cuerpo por ocuparlo sin haber sido invitada.”

Gregory Maguire

“Aún estaba embadurnada con la sangre del
parto y los comienzos acuosos de sus heces de lactante. La llevó a la puerta y la puso bajo la lluvia tibia. Cuando estuvo limpia, vio que era
verde.”

Gregory Maguire libro Hijo de bruja

Son of a Witch
Variante: Aún estaba embadurnada con la sangre del parto y los comienzos acuosos de sus heces de lactante. La llevó a la puerta y la puso bajo la lluvia tibia. Cuando estuvo limpia, vio que era verde.

“Tarde o temprano, a todos nos alcanza el rayo.”

Gregory Maguire libro A Lion Among Men

A Lion Among Men

“No es mi intención ser impertinente. Yo sólo intento aprender.”

Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“Para mí, ése es el auténtico poder del arte. No amonestar, sino provocar y desafiar. De otro modo, ¿para qué molestarse?”

Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

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“Recuerda esto: nada está escrito en las estrellas. No estas estrellas, ni ninguna otra. Nadie controla tu destino.”

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Gregory Maguire: Frases en inglés

“The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“Happy endings are still endings.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Hijo de bruja

Fuente: Son of a Witch

“It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Hijo de bruja

Fuente: Son of a Witch

“How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“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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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

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

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Fuente: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

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

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“You confuse not speaking with not listening.”

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

“She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.”

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

“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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“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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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle”

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Gregory Maguire libro Hijo de bruja

Fuente: Son of a Witch

“I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes… let it go!”

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

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

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

“Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“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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“The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

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

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Gregory Maguire libro A Lion Among Men

Fuente: A Lion Among Men

“I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose.
I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.”

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Gregory Maguire libro Wicked: Memorias de una bruja mala

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

“That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.”

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

“I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.”

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

“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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