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Author: Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire _ A Lion Among Men
Still, there is no law that says all decent things must be permanent. Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence."
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Gregory Maguire _ Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once
Mind your way forward and find your way back,
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Gregory Maguire _ Son of a Witch
I lift on my toes at the end of the dock, to dive into the lake because I am hot, and while isolated like a specimen in the glassy slide of summer, the notions of hot and lake and I converge into a consciousness of consciousness-in an instant, in between launch and landing, even before I cannonball into the lake, shattering both my reflection and my old notion of myself. That was what was once believed. Now, it seems hardly to matter when and how we become ourselves-or even what we become. Theory chases theory about how we are composed. The only constant: the abjuration of personal responsibility.
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Gregory Maguire _ Son of a Witch
A NOTION OF CHARACTER, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their lives. They woke up, were they lucky enough to have consciousness, in the act of doing something they already knew how to do:
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Gregory Maguire _ Lost
The chronic fun of writing, the distraction of it, was not knowing.
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Gregory Maguire _ Son of a Witch
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery, she said to herself, not for the first time. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery
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Gregory Maguire _ Wicked: The Life and Times of
Le malheur est l'issue naturelle de la vie, et pourtant nous continuons à faire des bébés.
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Gregory Maguire _ Wicked: The Life and Times of
The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time.
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Gregory Maguire _ Wicked: The Life and Times of
One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her-is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly
mori that time must also catch him at his crime: Painting
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Gregory Maguire _ Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once
We are all migrants. We are exiled from the place where meaning meant something.
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Gregory Maguire _ Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once
By that token, you might forget an event, but you can never go back to living as you did before its hidden influence was applied upon you.
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