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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Noticing
Screaming
Notice
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Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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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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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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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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They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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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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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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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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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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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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