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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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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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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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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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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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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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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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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