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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
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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.”

Gregory Maguire

Gregory Maguire: Frases en inglés

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

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Gregory Maguire libro Hijo de bruja

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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: Memorias de una bruja mala

Fuente: 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: Memorias de una bruja mala

Fuente: 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 Hijo de bruja

Fuente: Son of a Witch

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

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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

“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: Memorias de una bruja mala

Fuente: 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: Memorias de una bruja mala

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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: Memorias de una bruja mala

Fuente: 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 Hijo de bruja

Fuente: Son of a Witch

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

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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

“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: Memorias de una bruja mala

Fuente: 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: Memorias de una bruja mala

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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 Hijo de bruja

Fuente: Son of a Witch

“That's all I want- to do no harm.”

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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

“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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Fuente: 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: Memorias de una bruja mala

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