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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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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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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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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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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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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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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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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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We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.
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All our lives are activity without meaning we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.
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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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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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