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  1. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    mori that time must also catch him at his crime: Painting
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  2. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    I myself am quite addicted to sin. It does keep my confessor busy, negotiating with Heaven on my behalf.
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  3. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    You're critical of everyone.Oh, not everyone. Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born
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  4. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    the use of beauty? I have lived my life surrounded by painters, and I still do not know the answer. But I suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes our lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, let's have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories. We are a sorry tribe of beasts. We need all the help we can get.
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  5. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes our lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, let's have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories. We are a sorry tribe of beasts. We need all the help we can get.
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  6. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    The woman is bad-tempered because she's terrified.
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  7. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    Shame has a dreadful smell. So
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  8. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    All green things brown.
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  9. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    But let me remember what I choose.
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  10. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    How children love the broken thing! And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. Adult
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  11. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats. Nothing
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  12. Gregory Maguire _ Confessions of an Ugly

    a blur, the way all children's faces truly are. For they blur as they run; they blur as they grow and change so fast; and they blur to keep us from loving them too deeply, for their protection, and also for ours.
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