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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Might
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Drown
Grass
Dies
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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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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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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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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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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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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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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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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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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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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 dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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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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