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Quote by Gregory Maguire

“Even God used silence as a strategy.”

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Gregory Maguire is an American novelist known for his reinterpretation of classic fairy tales. His works are characterized by profound moral implications and rich imagination, which have won him a wide audience. more

“...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.”

Men Trying Doe Reality Action Purpose Felt Difficult Europe Weight Surrender Deliberate Our Actions

Book:The Road To Mecca

Source: The Road To Mecca

“You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet”

Light Beautiful Born Feet Planets Lays Gravity Cradle Miniatures Rims You Re Beautiful

Book:The Shout: Selected Poems

Source: The Shout: Selected Poems

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)

Quote by Gregory Maguire

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