Gregory Maguire Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Secret #Remember #Breathe

“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Believe

“Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Book #Fall #Writing

“The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Juxtaposition #Elements #World

“As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Long #People #Why Not

“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Sleep #Insomnia #Waking

“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Eye #Light #Shadow

“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.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#People #Evil #Way

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Stars #Destiny #Remember

“Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Character #Roots #Dying

“Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Wise #People #Anxiety

“Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Guilt #World #Faces

“I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Hate #Trouble #Scarecrow

“One plus one equals both.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Life #Plus

“Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Animal #People #Accepting

“The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#World #You Again #Ready

“No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Losing #Language #Choke

“Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Bird #Horizon #Maps

“Of course. You get everything from books.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Book

“The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Evil #Support #World

“There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Hate #World #Too Much

“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

#Mean #Shoes #Wicked

“The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Errors #Soul #Body

“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.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Sadness #Wonderful

“How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Break

“She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Leaving #World #Littles

“I learned failure early and mastered it.”
-- Gregory Maguire

“It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived-- a hot-air balloon-- just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palace revolt and to hold an execution without trial.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Heart #Air #Glasses

“You confuse not speaking with not listening.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Listening

“When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.”
-- Gregory Maguire

#Air #Crucible #Victim