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Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad...
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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.
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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.
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This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire
Born:
June 9, 1954
(age 68)
Bio:
Gregory Maguire is an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children.
Known for:
Wicked (1995)
Out of Oz (2011)
Son of a Witch (2005)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999)
After Alice (2014)
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