Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler?
Gregory Maguire[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?"
"You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]
Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
Gregory MaguireHe had no other plans for the rest of his life. He followed her.
Gregory MaguireVery few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.
Gregory MaguireBut now? Now? Children in the twentieth and this early twenty-first century hated the Alice books, couldn't read them, and why should they? Their world had strayed into madness long ago. Look at the planet. Rain is acid, poisonous. Sun causes cancer. Sex=death. Children murder other children. Parents lie, leaders lie, the churches have less moral credibility than Benetton ads.
And the faces of missing children staring out from milk cartons-imagine all those poor Lost Boys, and Lost Girls, not in Neverland but lost here, lost now. No wonder Wonderland isn't funny anymore: We live there full-time. We need a break from it.
The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.
Gregory MaguireTags: fiction
What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?
Gregory MaguireIs there a relative value of beauty? Is evanescence - fleetingness - a necessary element of the thing that most moves us? A shooting star dazzles more than the sun. A child captivates like an elf, but grows into grossness, an ogre, a harpy. A flower splays itself into color - the lilies of the field! - more treasured than any painting of a flower. But of all these things, women's grace, shooting stars, flowers, and paintings, only a painting endures.
Gregory MaguireYou have your own life to live, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows.
Gregory MaguireTags: life-lessons
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