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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Destiny
Choice
Worst
Choices
Even
Always
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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 mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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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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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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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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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
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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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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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