Gregory Maguire quotes

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go! (Gregory Maguire)
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. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Approval is overrated... Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without. View quote
Gregory Maguire
There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors. View quote
Gregory Maguire
I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing. View quote
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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. View quote
Gregory Maguire
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. View quote
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Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything. View quote
Gregory Maguire
She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose. (Gregory Maguire)
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die. View quote
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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all. View quote
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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery. View quote
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Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only... View quote
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Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force. View quote
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That's all I want- to do no harm. View quote
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet. View quote
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say. View quote
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Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. View quote
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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. (Gregory Maguire)
As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. View quote
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree. View quote
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Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do. View quote
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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. View quote
Gregory Maguire