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> [“evil is, after all, only a deficiency of goodness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/evil-is-after-all-only-a-deficiency-of-goodness/)

[dorothy gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

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> [Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/hell-is-more-like-boredom-or-not-having-enough-to-do-and-too-much/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

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## Other authors on Deficiency

## More by Dorothy Gilman

> [“I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is how a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/i-wasn-t-offering-her-pity-mrs-caswell-said-impatiently-tragedies-don/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [It's compassion that makes gods of us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/it-s-compassion-that-makes-gods-of-us/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [The best things arrive on time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/the-best-things-arrive-on-time/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/people-need-dreams-there-s-as-much-nourishment-in-em-as-food/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [“Do you like Magda too?” His gaze left the gate to sweep the courtyard. “She seems pleasant enough when she’s not drugged. But then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/do-you-like-magda-too-his-gaze-left-the-gate-to-sweep-the-courtyard/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [“If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead she had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/if-life-was-like-a-body-of-water-she-had-asked-that-she-be-allowed-to/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/will-anything-but-fanaticism-make-for-change-wisdom-and-compromise/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [“the problems changed, but people were the same”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/the-problems-changed-but-people-were-the-same/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [“...why doesn't anything end happily?" "Because," said Mrs. Pollifax slowly, "there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/why-doesn-t-anything-end-happily-because-said-mrs-pollifax-slowly/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/it-s-when-we-re-given-choice-that-we-sit-with-the-gods-and-design/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [ “Once upon a time, \[the guru\] said, when God had finished making the world, he wanted to leave behind Him for man a piece… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/once-upon-a-time-the-guru-said-when-god-had-finished-making-the-world/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [“evil is, after all, only a deficiency of goodness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/evil-is-after-all-only-a-deficiency-of-goodness/)

[dorothy gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/people-misunderstood-death-they-died-not-of-too-little-life-but-of/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/a-man-from-hell-is-not-afraid-of-hot-ashes/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

> [People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-gilman/people-need-dreams-there-s-as-much-nourishment-in-them-as-food/)

[Dorothy Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-gilman/)

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