"It was mild monsters like these that made……" — Gregory Maguire
"It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?"
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201 Quotes by Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire has 201 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
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...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of…
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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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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her…
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Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.
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My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension…
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I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
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What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved…
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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed…
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My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved…
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I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.
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I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they…
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There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or…
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My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could…
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its…
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My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.
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