Quote

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

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
Hurt
Responsibility
Future
Past
Take
Way

More quotes by Gregory Maguire

Image
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Gregory Maguire
Image
...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
Gregory Maguire
Image
That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
Gregory Maguire
Image
Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense
Gregory Maguire
Image
And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
Gregory Maguire
Image
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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
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.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I learned failure early and mastered it.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
Gregory Maguire
Image
[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
Gregory Maguire
Image
All our lives are activity without meaning we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
Gregory Maguire