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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Form
Fun
Maybe
Evil
Art

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Happy endings are still endings.
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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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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 learned failure early and mastered it.
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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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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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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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It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
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The world was floods above and fire below
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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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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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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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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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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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