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Gregory Maguire

"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."

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"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."

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"The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason."
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"I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward."
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"Children played at those stories, they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them."
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"Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history."
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"Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character."
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"Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away."
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"Immortality is a chancy thing, it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is."
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