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You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
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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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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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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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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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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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