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Gregory Maguire Quotes
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I wouldn’t mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don’t know the way out (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
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 (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
I never write a book unless I can’t help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
... No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happy meals (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
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 (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
It’s been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
That’s the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother? (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
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? (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
The answer of course, is that the clock isn’t meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
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 (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass... it might be the best way to die (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
She watched the sun bleed water out of the icicle. Warm and cold working together to make an icicle. Warm and cold anger working together to make a fury, a fury worthy enough to use as a weapon against the old things that still needed fighting (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
I don’t like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
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 (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we’re lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
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 (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
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 (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
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 (Gregory Maguire Quotes)
He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome (Gregory Maguire Quotes)