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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
Madhouses
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Madhouse

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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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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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Are you the dart? he said. Are you the knife? The fuse? She said (though he wasn't convinced): My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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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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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
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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
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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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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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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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.
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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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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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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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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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