Quote

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

Gregory Maguire

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Awful
Takes
Wrong
Experience
Long
Time
Proven

More quotes by Gregory Maguire

Image
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
Gregory Maguire
Image
To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
Gregory Maguire
Image
My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
Gregory Maguire
Image
It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
Gregory Maguire
Image
Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
Gregory Maguire
Image
... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Happy endings are still endings.
Gregory Maguire
Image
...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
Gregory Maguire
Image
From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
Gregory Maguire
Image
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
Gregory Maguire
Image
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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.
Gregory Maguire