The fairytale belongs to the poor. I know of no fairytale which upholds the tyrant or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairytale is an absurdity.

Gregory Maguire

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One plus one equals both.

Gregory Maguire


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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

Gregory Maguire


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Damn the human stomach, this fat betrayor of ideals

Gregory Maguire


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Please, I know nothing of the world, except my father is lost in it.

Gregory Maguire


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He had forgotten how convincing the world could look, how sure of itself: its outlines and edges; it's gradations, recessions, protrusions; it's startling and vulgar colors.

Gregory Maguire


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What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake?

Gregory Maguire


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The chronic fun of writing, the distraction of it, was not knowing.

Gregory Maguire


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When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil, and maybe splits apart and multiplies.

Gregory Maguire


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But there was the mirror in which I would glimpse his handsome form, because mirrors don't lie about men, only women.

Gregory Maguire


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