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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
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Albany
New York
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... 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.
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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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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.
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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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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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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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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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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Don't wish,said Rain, don't start. Wishing only...
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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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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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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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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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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