Gregory Maguire Short Quotes

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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

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Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

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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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No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.

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How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.

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That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

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This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

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Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

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The reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.

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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

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How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

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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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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

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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 body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

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It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

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Quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

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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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That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

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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.

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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

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