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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Devil
Struggle
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Ever
Good

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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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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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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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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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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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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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...I dabble in causes and effects.
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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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