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

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Men
Breeds
Blindness
Wickedness
Stupidity
Power

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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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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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Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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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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No one is exempt from grief.
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The world was floods above and fire below
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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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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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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.
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