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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
Evil
Art
Form
Fun
Maybe

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We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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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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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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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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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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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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The world was floods above and fire below
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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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?
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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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