{"author":"Gregory Maguire","author_id":"Gregory+Maguire","total_quotes":119,"quotes":[{"text":"Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["act","appetite","evil"],"id":8272,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["expressions","gestures","love","lovers","lust"],"id":12144,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"This is what fun is like,' said Rain, almost to herself.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["fun","rain"],"id":17169,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"Of course. You get everything from books.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["books","knowledge","reading","wicked"],"id":18979,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["elphaba","evil","good"],"id":23576,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and food to eat, and neighbors to bicker with and then eventually to marry. But I think... That your own devotion to your familiar homeland should inspire you to allow other people to embrace their homelands as beautiful too.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["acceptance","home","patriotism"],"id":24736,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["wisdom"],"id":28120,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["regret"],"id":29364,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say. Paradoxically, only through the essential instantaneity of music could you approach its eternal pertinence.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["music"],"id":45904,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make of the hollow world a fuller, messier, prettier place, but all our inventions can't create the one thing we require: to deserve any fond attention we might accidentally receive, to receive any fond attention we don't in the course of things deserve. We are never enough to ourselves because we can never be enough to another. Any one of us walks into any room and reminds its occupant that we are not the one they most want to see. We are never the one. We are never enough.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["artists","expectations","falling-below-expectations","never-enough","requirements","self-hate"],"id":48971,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":119,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}