Gregory Maguire Quotes

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• Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to…
• That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
• ...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
• It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
• The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
• I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
• 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…
• I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
• Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
• What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
• Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem…
• Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• ...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.
• 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…
• It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
• That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
• I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it.…

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