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[after discussion about what evil is, a question asked to Elphaba on why she killed Madame Morrible]
"Why did you do it?" asked the hostess with spirit.
The Witch shrugged. "For fun? Maybe evil is an art form. -- Gregory Maguire
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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything. -- Gregory Maguire
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever. -- Gregory Maguire
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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims. -- Gregory Maguire
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Damn the human stomach, this fat betrayor of ideals -- Gregory Maguire
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History crawls along on the peg legs of small individual lives," said Frex, "and at the same time larger eternal forces converge. You can't attend to both arenas at once." "Our child may not have a small life. -- Gregory Maguire
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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life. -- Gregory Maguire
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement. -- Gregory Maguire
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. -- Gregory Maguire
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It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un. -- Gregory Maguire
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You always said I could see the present," said Candle, when she could speak. "But I can see nothing about her - my own daughter." Liir smoothed his hand over her silky flank. "Maybe that's not so surprising. Maybe all parents are blindest to their own offspring. -- Gregory Maguire
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What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled ... some imprecision clarified, some name Named ... and some change managed. -- 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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When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was 'The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end. -- Gregory Maguire
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It's the age of daring. It's the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive. -- Gregory Maguire
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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows -- Gregory Maguire
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The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime. -- Gregory Maguire
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I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness. -- Gregory Maguire
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And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time ... And did she ever come out? ... Not yet. -- Gregory Maguire
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How could anyone live without flying? -- Gregory Maguire
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While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon. -- Gregory Maguire
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Tell me to mind my own business, tell me to go fuck myself, to piss, off, go on, say it, but don't tell me nothing's wrong. -- Gregory Maguire
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I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found. -- Gregory Maguire
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself? -- Gregory Maguire
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So Oxford, at its inception a huddle of theologicians and divines, grew into a city of dreams, and much good may come of that. Little surprise that Middle-earth and Narnia were both discovered here. -- Gregory Maguire
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Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad. -- Gregory Maguire
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But he found himself rounding syllables like stones in his mouth, silently. He knew he was shy, and thought to be stupid; he was beginning to suspect, thought, that he wasn't stupid. Perhaps not even slow. Merely uneducated. But not, he hoped, uneducable. -- Gregory Maguire
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Marmalade has to make its own way in life, like the rest of us, she thought. -- Gregory Maguire
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Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do. -- 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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A certain young scholar of Shiz Right before a philosophy quiz Guzzled splits of champagne So that he could declaim I drink, and therefore I is. -- Gregory Maguire
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However in the world did her skin come green? Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again. -- Gregory Maguire
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Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger
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I have so few choices, really, if I can't get myself back home. Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go out far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realize that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. -- Gregory Maguire
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The last light with any real warmth had been at home, long ago, in a place and a time that no longer existed, with people whose names he didn't say even inside his own mind. -- Gregory Maguire
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When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking. -- Gregory Maguire
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. -- Gregory Maguire
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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. -- Gregory Maguire
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The alien girl - she called herself Dorothy - was by virtue of her survival elevated to living sainthood. The dog was merely annoying. -- Gregory Maguire
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Only, sometimes, in the text of a book here and there, we tap the page with a finger and say, This is what my lost days were like. Something like this. -- Gregory Maguire
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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing. -- Gregory Maguire
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Always the godfather, never the god, -- Gregory Maguire
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How easily Neverland is corrupted into the deserted island of Lord of the Flies. How quickly Tinkerbell regresses to being one of the flies pestering the gouged eye sockets of the pig that the lost boys butcher. -- Gregory Maguire
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A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist. -- Gregory Maguire
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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. -- Gregory Maguire
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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree? -- Gregory Maguire
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It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from. -- Gregory Maguire
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After all is said and done," said the Dormouse, "there is nothing to be done. Or said. -- Gregory Maguire
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Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience. -- Gregory Maguire
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Some realities are too onerous to be borne by nations, let alone by children. -- Gregory Maguire
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I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions. -- Gregory Maguire
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Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming. -- Gregory Maguire
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Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me? -- Gregory Maguire
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies. -- Gregory Maguire
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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be. -- Gregory Maguire
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I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months. -- Gregory Maguire
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This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction. -- Gregory Maguire
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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently. -- Gregory Maguire
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How children love the broken thing! And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. Adult -- Gregory Maguire
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Your name is Rain, isn't it? Rain slips in the cracks and slides through the seams. You can do it? Can't you? -- Gregory Maguire
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Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling porcupine," she crooned. "Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine. -- Gregory Maguire
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With all those stars in the sky, why isn't there enough light for us to see by? We stumble like blinded sheep.'
'As you can see, it is clouding over. The stars can't pierce the gloom; they just wait it out. That isn't the stars fault. It is their custom to stay heavenly. -- Gregory Maguire
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Her voice is hoarse. She's caught a catarrh from that dreadful draft. -- Gregory Maguire
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The alluring stars in an apparently endless sky had, after all, been a disguise for the cloud of spirits. Ghosts perhaps could lie in death as well as creatures could lie in life. -- Gregory Maguire
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Glinda waved dismissively. Then she tucked her hand against her mouth and bit her knuckles. It was hard to tell if her pretty ways were studied or innate.
"Oh, oh," she managed, "I don't know that I'll see you again- and you remind me so of her. -- Gregory Maguire
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But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off. -- Gregory Maguire
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It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. -- Gregory Maguire
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Furniture!" bellowed the witch. "Tables, bathtub, the lot of you. It's time to go out in the world and seek your fortunes, if that's your hope." There was a crashing sound as all the furniture went and tried to hide under the bed, and the bed tried to hide under itself. -- Gregory Maguire
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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
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When a scarecrow blows apart in a gale wind, the farmer just props up another one. It's the job to be done that's important, not who does it. -- Gregory Maguire
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Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. -- Gregory Maguire
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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. -- Gregory Maguire
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Approval is overrated ... Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without. -- Gregory Maguire
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Happy endings are still endings. -- Gregory Maguire
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing.
If one could drown in the grass ... it might be the best way to die. -- Gregory Maguire
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My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee. -- Gregory Maguire
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No doubt Noah offered his wife that olive branch. Forty days in a boat with those animals to clean up after? A peace offering likely all that stood between their marriage and bloody murder. -- Gregory Maguire
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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us. -- Gregory Maguire
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He shook his ladle overhead as if summoning the wrath of angel chefs among the stars. -- Gregory Maguire
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All of life hinges on what one does next, until finally one makes the wrong choice. -- Gregory Maguire
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The decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny. -- Gregory Maguire
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How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never. -- Gregory Maguire
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You two are just up the stairs. Next to my room, so I can keep an eye on you should you get up to anything."
"What's your name so I can call it out during wild sex? -- Gregory Maguire
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That's all I want- to do no harm. -- Gregory Maguire
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I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind. -- Gregory Maguire
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The person who would become a lifelong reader should stumble upon very rich stuff first, early, and often. It lived within, a most agreeable kind of haunting. -- Gregory Maguire
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow. -- Gregory Maguire
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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one. -- Gregory Maguire
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We are the next thing the Time Dragon is dreaming, and nothing to be done about it. -- Gregory Maguire
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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
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How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. -- Gregory Maguire
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There is no backstory in dream. Time slips all its handcuffs. So: -- Gregory Maguire
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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment. -- Gregory Maguire
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For fun? Maybe evil is an art form. -- Gregory Maguire
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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. -- Gregory Maguire
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Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. -- Gregory Maguire
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Against the mutability of dream, the natural laws advocated by our bewigged Enlightenment forebears are powerless. Newton, for instance, insists on gravity and other prohibitions of the physical world, from which (while we are awake) we are never free. But we can fly in dreams. -- Gregory Maguire
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He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there. -- Gregory Maguire
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You lost your copper as well as your faith in wishes, and prayers. -- Gregory Maguire
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Alice less winsome than weird, and treated Lydia like a Cerberus, -- Gregory Maguire
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He spoke in one of the American accents; Lydia couldn't distinguish among them. To her they all sounded dry and tinny. Almost quack-like. -- Gregory Maguire
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But the pinkness and whiteness of underskirts and camisoles, the frilliness of foundation garments, the rustle about the bustle and the fuss about the bust. -- Gregory Maguire
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Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met -- Gregory Maguire
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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can. -- Gregory Maguire
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One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime. -- Gregory Maguire
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it. -- Gregory Maguire
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You can't criticize the size of a world. -- Gregory Maguire
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All tyrants were harsh, but fire was more ungovernable than most. -- Gregory Maguire
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Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child. -- 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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Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is. -- Gregory Maguire
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. -- Gregory Maguire
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No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it. -- Gregory Maguire
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We are an experiment in situation ethics set by the unnamed god. -- Gregory Maguire
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belongs. I can't afford so much as a footman to scour Saint Petersburg." "You must afford it. It is said, 'One -- Gregory Maguire
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother? -- Gregory Maguire
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At least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder -- Gregory Maguire
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Your childhood, said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.
Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind. -- Gregory Maguire
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Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval! -- Gregory Maguire
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It's the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all. -- Gregory Maguire
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How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly. -- Gregory Maguire
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The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar. -- Gregory Maguire
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Being born with a talent or an inclination for goodness is the aberration. -- Gregory Maguire
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She claims they give her moral virtue too, but then she has buckets more of that than she needs. -- Gregory Maguire
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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go. -- Gregory Maguire
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Looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs. -- Gregory Maguire
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The cave of Ozma has been discovered, and she is to come back and rule our Oz, and the idiotic Scarecrow can go stuff himself. Hah!Good one: a Scarecrow stuffing himself. -- Gregory Maguire
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history takes a long time to happen. -- Gregory Maguire
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No one is exempt from grief. -- Gregory Maguire
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The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation. -- Gregory Maguire
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The world pauses for royalty and deformity alike, and sometimes one can't tell the difference. -- Gregory Maguire
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Then, abrupt and decisive, the Emerald City rose before them. A city of insistence, of blanket declaration. It made no sense, clotting up the horizon, sprouting like a mirage on the characterless plains of central Oz. Glinda hated it from the moment she saw it. Brash upstart of a city. -- Gregory Maguire
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Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind. -- Gregory Maguire
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field. -- Gregory Maguire
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No one is exempt from grief. The -- Gregory Maguire
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color. -- Gregory Maguire
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Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something? -- Gregory Maguire
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Stinging words! You re critical of everyone," observes Iris. "Oh, not everyone," says Clara in an offhand manner. "Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born. -- Gregory Maguire
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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny. -- Gregory Maguire
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O beautiful, to make escape
And leave this world behind.
Had I to stay another day
I'd lose my fucking mind... -- Gregory Maguire
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All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy, -- Gregory Maguire
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out. -- Gregory Maguire
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Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice
just policy -- Gregory Maguire
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Now we'd help her if we could. We can't. So we're helping you. That's all that most of us who are not Tsars or witches can manage to do. -- Gregory Maguire
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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
-- Gregory Maguire
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings. -- Gregory Maguire
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Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad ... -- Gregory Maguire
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The cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible. -- Gregory Maguire
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But men don't dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death. Ah, we're slow learners, Nanny countered. But they can't learn at all. -- Gregory Maguire
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. -- Gregory Maguire
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But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart. -- Gregory Maguire
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Or is it just that the world upwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you're ready to see it anew? -- Gregory Maguire
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Hello, this is I, and these are my arms and legs, which are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less than useful, but I've learned how to hump it around, so pay it no mind. -- Gregory Maguire
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Even a clock has teeth and time has a bite all of its own. -- Gregory Maguire
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But who could teach daughters how to fly? Parents were by definition earthbound, grub eaters, feet in their own coffins, by dint of being parents. -- Gregory Maguire
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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified. -- Gregory Maguire
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We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting ourselves wicked. And nothing to be done about it. And nothing to be done about it. -- Gregory Maguire
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. -- Gregory Maguire
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Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful ... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore. -- Gregory Maguire
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I know Oz, now," she said, and in the carving of the lintel she found that common ideogram, a Z circled with an O. "Usually letters don't hide inside each other," she told Glinda firmly. "No, that's true. In Oz, I suppose, something is always hiding ... -- Gregory Maguire
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Happiness now sometimes meant turning away from what one remembered of earlier, better happiness. -- Gregory Maguire
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He has added inches and fullness to his beard since his last visit. I'll say no more. -- Gregory Maguire
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In my raveling thoughts I flew away, as if my spirit were nestled in the breast feathers of some passing hornbill or waxwing. -- Gregory Maguire
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She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!"
What?"
She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!"
Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose. -- Gregory Maguire
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Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. -- Gregory Maguire
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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
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say. -- Gregory Maguire
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness. -- Gregory Maguire
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What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get - the more specificity you harvest - the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. -- Gregory Maguire
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Think of egg and spoon. If there is an egg, well, fine. You eat. Unless you use your spoon to hold the egg out of my reach. Does being in possession of a spoon give you more right to the egg? -- Gregory Maguire
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Oh, wary, well, I'm wary of the water I drink, it might be poisoned," said Glinda. "That doesn't mean I stop drinking water. -- Gregory Maguire
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Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it. -- Gregory Maguire
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Begging your pardon, sir ... One population can't make peace with another by force. -- Gregory Maguire
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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. -- Gregory Maguire
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The river was slow here, our old Cherwell, but kitted out with treacherous tree roots and crumbling banks, and just enough depth to scare one toward salvation. -- Gregory Maguire
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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
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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on
or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offence. -- Gregory Maguire
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And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen. -- Gregory Maguire
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I'm a priest, I know better than most when a lie is permitted. -- Gregory Maguire
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But what is character? How solid? We cut our hair, we shave our beards, we lose a limb. We remain ourselves. In dreams, however, we swap identities licentiously. We sabotage the structures of our character without a thought. -- Gregory Maguire
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The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective. -- Gregory Maguire
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Such silly things, children - and so embarrassing - because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. -- Gregory Maguire
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I am a woman who slept with my father the Pope.
They say I did, at least, and so does he.
And who am I to make of the Pope a liar,
And who is he to make a liar of me? -- Gregory Maguire
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When have we required anything of you? Except to survive? -- Gregory Maguire
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I do not deny that you overwhelm me with your beauty. You are the moon in the season of shadow light; you are the fruit of the candlewood tree; you are the phoenix in circles of flight
. -- Gregory Maguire
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Sooner or later we grow into deserving our own deaths, somehow. -- Gregory Maguire
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Children talk themselves out of their convictions as they grow up and become distracted by their huge selfish selves. All the literature is consistent on this point. Children begin to think they've imagined us. -- Gregory Maguire
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I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch. -- Gregory Maguire
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We stand at a crossroads. Idolatry looms. Traditional values in jeopardy. Truth under siege and virtue abandoned. -- Gregory Maguire
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For one short wet month early in the next year the drought lifted. Spring tipped in like green well water frothing at the hedges bubbling at the roadside splashing from the cottage roof in garlands of ivy and stringflower -- Gregory Maguire
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Now he was the minister and she the sinner, an arrangement she did not particularly enjoy. -- Gregory Maguire
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Always the bridesmaid , never the bride."
Always the godfather, never the god". -- Gregory Maguire
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I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read. -- Gregory Maguire
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Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you're really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful. -- Gregory Maguire
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Literary pleasure, and a sense of recognition and identification, real though they are, burn off like alcohol in the flame of the next heated moment. -- Gregory Maguire
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Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz?" he asked. "I have already learned not to speak to strangers." "Then I will introduce myself and we will be strangers no longer. I am Dillamond." "I am disinclined to know you. -- Gregory Maguire
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How brave that had made her feel, and how vulnerable too. -- Gregory Maguire
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The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light. -- Gregory Maguire
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Quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking. -- Gregory Maguire
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No, my girl, you know nothing of how we women are imprisoned in our lives, but there are ways to determine the sentence we must serve. -- Gregory Maguire
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The mister days that letters are the key, but even when you know the whole family, there's so many combinations you can make. And they break their word. -- 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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All green things brown. -- Gregory Maguire
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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful. -- Gregory Maguire
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To grow a melody?"
"You can't grow a melody on purpose," she said, and slyly added, "you have to plant an accidental. -- Gregory Maguire
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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure. -- Gregory Maguire
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Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. -- Gregory Maguire
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No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals. -- Gregory Maguire
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Come what may and hell to pay. -- Gregory Maguire
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[Cat] found a complete set of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, with little tabs of paper sticking out. The were scrawled over with the witch's comments to herself, "Fun!" "Try this, but with exploding feathers!" and "Gotta love him
deeply sick. -- Gregory Maguire
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Of course. You get everything from books. -- Gregory Maguire
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And Ama Clutch was gone, and the overly subordinate pillowcase took a small spill of human juice from the edge of her slackened mouth. -- Gregory Maguire
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This is what fun is like, said Rain, almost to herself. -- Gregory Maguire
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Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other. -- Gregory Maguire
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I rarely trust myself to make statements about truth. -- Gregory Maguire
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And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever some out? Not yet. -- Gregory Maguire
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Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless. -- Gregory Maguire
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One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions. -- Gregory Maguire
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Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing
by dint of ignorance and innocence
that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way. -- Gregory Maguire
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Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents. -- Gregory Maguire
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He set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer in homecomings. -- Gregory Maguire
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.'
Did she ever come out?'
Not yet. -- Gregory Maguire
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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? -- Gregory Maguire
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They hadn't come so far just to be turned away because of adolescent radicalism. -- Gregory Maguire
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Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history -- Gregory Maguire
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I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical. -- Gregory Maguire
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Boq sat down, and shook his head, as if bewildered by the apparition of Elphaba. -- Gregory Maguire
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If the unlettered farmers of Munchkinland and the factory workers of Gillikin believe that their fate is being determined by how the Time Dragon dreams them up, they don't need to bother to take responsibility for their actions or for changing their class and station in life. -- Gregory Maguire
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As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it. -- Gregory Maguire
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It's more convenient to have a hero waiting in the wings than to endure a blowhard standing in the spotlight. -- Gregory Maguire
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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. -- Gregory Maguire
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There was no apology for the way the world worked. Only accommodation to it, while at the same time committing - somehow - not to give up. -- Gregory Maguire
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This girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another. -- Gregory Maguire
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she ... -- Gregory Maguire
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(from the short story The Honorary Shepherds) ... you can't be kicked out of a faith. Faith starts inside your heart and ends up in eternity. All you can be kicked out of is a building, which is the bus stop of faith, sort of, and what's a building? -- Gregory Maguire
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As for dreams, they are powered by urgent desire, even if that desire is only to escape the quotidian. -- Gregory Maguire
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As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars. -- Gregory Maguire
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Gossip is instructive," said the Wizard. "It tells which way the wind is blowing. -- Gregory Maguire
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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully. -- Gregory Maguire
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Given a long enough time, of course, a wide enough frame, there is nothing said or done, ever, that isn't ironic in the end. -- Gregory Maguire
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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors -- Gregory Maguire
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The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. It is, on the whole, a merciful arrangement. We are not condemned to sustained flights of being, but are constantly refreshed by little holidays from ourselves. . . . -- Gregory Maguire
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Talking among children is an overrated concept. -- Gregory Maguire
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The chronic fun of writing, the distraction of it, was not knowing. -- Gregory Maguire
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Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. -- Gregory Maguire
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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. -- Gregory Maguire
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So - if the oldest memories could contaminate one another, could prove impossible - what good was memory at al? -- Gregory Maguire
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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer. -- Gregory Maguire
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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference. -- Gregory Maguire
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Is it the sheer nature of the beast within, the human animal inside the Human Being? -- Gregory Maguire
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Oh, the accident necessary to fiction! -- Gregory Maguire
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Once you outgrow that fetching habit of faith you will display a ferocious authority. -- Gregory Maguire
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being. -- Gregory Maguire
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The Ozmists around him went iridescent emerald, like light striking a thousand whirring beetles in flight, gold and emerald, emerald and gold, the colors of Lurlinemas, the colors of pine polen in champagne sunlight. -- Gregory Maguire
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A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better. -- Gregory Maguire
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The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious. -- Gregory Maguire
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The horizon was frosted with a greenish smear, as if ranks of campfires from distant tribes had divined the news already and were burning an homage to Elphaba before the sun could set on the day of her death.
He could smell her in the collar of the cape, and he wept for the first time. -- Gregory Maguire
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When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence. -- Gregory Maguire
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At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change. -- Gregory Maguire
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I never talk about the end game." He winked at her. "I've lived so long without death that I've stopped believing in it. -- Gregory Maguire
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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories. -- Gregory Maguire
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Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps. Individuals play for time. -- Gregory Maguire
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Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key? -- Gregory Maguire
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It is existentially, hyperbolically, quintessentially unknowable. -- Gregory Maguire
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But, being unable to decide yes, she decided no. -- Gregory Maguire
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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
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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
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Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you. -- Gregory Maguire
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Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that. -- Gregory Maguire
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Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity -- Gregory Maguire
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The eye is always drawn to light, but shadows have more to say. -- Gregory Maguire
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Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? -- Gregory Maguire
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Well," said Madame Morrible in a carrying tone, "one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. It is the Right of Art. -- Gregory Maguire
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What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling paintings in the mind
to which, with nostalgia or dread, you must ever return. -- Gregory Maguire
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You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.
Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.
I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion- -- Gregory Maguire
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There is a limit to the nonsense even a dream can attempt. -- Gregory Maguire
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It was deliciously pagan. -- Gregory Maguire
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind. -- Gregory Maguire
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I'm just doing your tea, Mum," he said.
"Are you all imbecilic? Is that a requirement of enlisted men? It's Lady GLINDA!" She was losing it, big time. "Get me Murth! -- Gregory Maguire
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I had written children's books for 14 years before I published 'Wicked.' And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed. -- Gregory Maguire
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The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man. -- Gregory Maguire
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So young, he knew nothing about aerodynamics, except how the heart could lift and lift. -- Gregory Maguire
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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
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The family was still hard-pressed for money, and dreamed of savory treats to eat, but they had the warmth of one another, and enough on which to live, and in most parts of the world that is called plenty. -- Gregory Maguire
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As Solomon said in the Old Book, if two women squabble over which of them is the mother of a certain infant, the way to solve the problem is to cut the baby in half and share the baby in parts. -- Gregory Maguire
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The heels of military boots, striking marble floors, made a sound like thrown stones. -- Gregory Maguire
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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive. -- Gregory Maguire
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The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build. -- Gregory Maguire
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It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame. -- Gregory Maguire
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They had ganged up on her, in the claustrophobic, loving way of families, and she wanted no more of it. -- Gregory Maguire
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Ah, the inner eye blinks, and the spirit trembles, at the dangerous cost of seeing one's self as one is. -- Gregory Maguire
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One expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. -- Gregory Maguire
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You confuse not speaking with not listening. -- Gregory Maguire
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In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. -- Gregory Maguire
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As an old friend of mine once said when I brought him some interesting brownies, 'You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes,'" she replied. "Haven't you read your Maimonides? -- Gregory Maguire
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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
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She lived and breathed, Brrr knew, with a high tolerance for detachment - like a lake jellyfish floating in a glass casket, oblivious of japing crowds. -- Gregory Maguire
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives. -- Gregory Maguire
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Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it. -- Gregory Maguire
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Frex had a notion that she wasn't sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back. -- Gregory Maguire
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Hens were wandering about like ladies at a lyceum tea trying to find their friends before selecting their seats. -- Gregory Maguire
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Also there was the thrill, basis indeterminable, which made Glinda shy, and caused her to rush her words, and to speak in a false high voice like an adolescent. How quickly you could be thrown back to the terrible uncertainty of your youth! For -- Gregory Maguire
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Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone. -- Gregory Maguire
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Ambition without direction is like milk without a cup. -- Gregory Maguire
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She watched the sun bleed water out of the icicle. Warm and cold working together to make an icicle. Warm and cold anger working together to make a fury, a fury worthy enough to use as a weapon against the old things that still needed fighting. -- Gregory Maguire
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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it. -- Gregory Maguire
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They did the best they could. Besides I was hardly a stranger. I had known your grandmother. We were like this. She twined her second and third fingers together as if they might strangle each other. -- Gregory Maguire
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The master is bringing Darwin through to examine lower life-forms, Rhoda. Straighten your spine or you'll be mistook for a mollusk. -- Gregory Maguire
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She found her regard for Mr. Winter turning to something like suspicion - though notice how often we lower suspicion upon others to avoid putting ourselves under scrutiny. Now -- Gregory Maguire
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Children surrender nothing when faced with the world: it is the world that gives up, over and over again. By so giving up, of course, it renews itself - that is the secret. Dying in order to live, that sort of thing. -- Gregory Maguire
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I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest. -- Gregory Maguire
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Perplexity isn't as noble as conviction, but perhaps more good is done in the name of muddling through uncertainty than is done hacking away with the righteous sword of self-confidence. -- Gregory Maguire
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I just like to think about what I'm reading. Don't you?" "I don't read very well. So I don't think I think very well either." Galinda smiled. "I dress to kill, though. -- Gregory Maguire
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Within a few moments the last of day became the first of night, a magic as peculiar and welcome as any other. -- Gregory Maguire
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SELF-MOCKERY IS AN UGLIER THING THAN ANY HUMAN FACE, IRIS ... YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE KIND. DON'T BETRAY THOSE IMPULSES IN YOURSELF. DON'T BELABOR THE LACK OF PHYSICAL BEAUTY, WHICH IN ANY CASE EVENTUALLY FLEES THOSE WHO HAVE IT AND MAKES THEM SAD. -- Gregory Maguire
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A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible. -- Gregory Maguire
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's. -- Gregory Maguire
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The surface of the shoes seemed to pulse with hundreds of reflections and refractions. In the firelight, it was like looking at boiling corpuscles of blood under a magnifying glass. -- Gregory Maguire
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Not in a dog's age. Not since that Dorothy. And you and the others. Did Dorothy ever stop whimpering so? She'll grow up to require the convent, mark my words. Or a husband with a good strong backhand. Her fanny wants spanking badly. -- Gregory Maguire
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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome. -- Gregory Maguire
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Men were beasts. Everyone knew that. -- Gregory Maguire
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Perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most. -- Gregory Maguire
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Those who are roped into bed at night often fall into delusions of flight. -- 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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A mother to a reckless, feckless, one-off of a child - but what child isn't? -- Gregory Maguire
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Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. -- Gregory Maguire
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Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle -- Gregory Maguire
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A little bird told me," said the Lion. -- Gregory Maguire
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I have the distinct feeling I'm not in Oz anymore,' said Brrr. -- Gregory Maguire
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The wall read:
ELPHIE LIVES
OZMA LIVES
THE WIZARD LIVES
and then
EVERYONE LIVES BUT US. -- Gregory Maguire
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Perhaps every accidental cluster of people has a short period of grace, in between an initial shyness and prejudice on the one hand and eventual repugnance and betrayal on the other. -- Gregory Maguire
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Don't be disgusting.
Don't dare me. I majored in disgusting at Gulag Community College. Lucrezia Borgia taught cooking, and Madame Defarge taught knitting. Emperor Nero taught violin and also led the cheerleading squad. I skipped all my classes and failed with distinction. -- Gregory Maguire
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I believe in the floor. I put it in place and I walk on it. Faith is a floor. If you don't work at making it for yourself, you have nothing to walk on. -- Gregory Maguire
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She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet. -- Gregory Maguire
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The madder the battle, the saner the peace. -- Gregory Maguire
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Noon is a disguise of whiteness put on by the eternal Night behind it. -- Gregory Maguire
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That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for. -- Gregory Maguire
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...I dabble in causes and effects. -- Gregory Maguire
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature. -- Gregory Maguire
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way. -- Gregory Maguire
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All these last months he had begun to talk about Sarima and the family as if they were ghosts, hiding just around the curve of the spiral staircase in the tower, suppressing giggles at this long, long game of hide-and-seek. -- Gregory Maguire
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit. -- Gregory Maguire
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In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats. -- Gregory Maguire
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I'm the very glass of fashion and the mold of form. Aren't I, Mewster?" "You look like a walking hairball," said the kitten. -- Gregory Maguire
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You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. -- Gregory Maguire
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Age doesn't always constitute wisdom. And people grow up on different schedules, one from the next. -- Gregory Maguire
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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. -- Gregory Maguire
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The years peeled slowly off, one by one, or perhaps dozens at a time. -- Gregory Maguire
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all. -- Gregory Maguire
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Love makes hunters of us all. -- Gregory Maguire
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint. -- Gregory Maguire
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The boy does well enough," said Vicente. "A goose does not ask much of life, after all."
"No," she admitted. "Those who ask much are more likely disappointed. We should all be as simple as the goose. -- Gregory Maguire
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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
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What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself? -- Gregory Maguire
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A burnt broom that has had enough, and refuses to burn further ... -- Gregory Maguire
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I've told you before, I don't comprehend religion, although conviction is a concept I'm beginning to get. In any case, someone with a real religious conviction is, I propose, a religious convict, and deserves locking up. -- Gregory Maguire
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I'm no pawn," said Glinda. "I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness. Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that. But you do have some choice. -- Gregory Maguire
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[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?"
"You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] -- Gregory Maguire
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Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else? -- Gregory Maguire
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Her head had turned quickly away ... Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence. -- Gregory Maguire
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He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too. -- Gregory Maguire
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Liir held Chistery in his lap and sobbed into his scalp. Chistery said, "Well, we'll wail while woe'll wheel," and he cried along with Liir. -- Gregory Maguire
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She added, perhaps to herself, "You have to become old and ugly before anyone listens to you, and then they don't, because you're ugly and old. -- Gregory Maguire
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Lot of talky-talk in there, they had to open the windows to let the words out, -- Gregory Maguire
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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste. -- Gregory Maguire
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I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent. -- Gregory Maguire
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After all, what kind of a life is it that is not pestered by insects? A perfect one, and since life is not perfect, this cannot be life. -- Gregory Maguire
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You give me dyspepsia, Avaric. You and the beans we had at lunch. -- Gregory Maguire
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How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[ ... ]None of us breaks free. -- Gregory Maguire
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction. -- Gregory Maguire
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Whimsy is fate, too: just less knowable. -- Gregory Maguire
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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all. -- Gregory Maguire
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last -- Gregory Maguire
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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. -- Gregory Maguire
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The world was floods above and fire below -- Gregory Maguire
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He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others. -- Gregory Maguire
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Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all. -- Gregory Maguire
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The storm dropped a house on her head. -- Gregory Maguire
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Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes our lives less miserable so that we might be more kind - well, then, let's have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories. We are a sorry tribe of beasts. We need all the help we can get. -- Gregory Maguire
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Why were memories so independent? So jealous of corroborating detail? -- Gregory Maguire
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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. -- Gregory Maguire
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I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers. -- Gregory Maguire
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Just follow that one road the whole time! ... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.. -- Gregory Maguire
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The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory. -- Gregory Maguire
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It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba -- Gregory Maguire
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It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay.
-Elphaba -- Gregory Maguire
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Elphaba's already come back. I saw her last week on the stairs. -- Gregory Maguire
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She was a sour-sass soul with a rubbery face. -- Gregory Maguire
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree. -- Gregory Maguire
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Everybody needs to grow up and leave home sometimes. But sometimes home doesn't like it. -- Gregory Maguire
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You'll understand when you're older. Or anyway not understanding will become second nature, and it won't matter. -- Gregory Maguire
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We live in our tales of ourselves ... and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls ... -- Gregory Maguire
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She wondered, faintly, if it was immoral to raise children in the habit of hope. Was it not, in the end, all the harder for them to adjust to the reality of how the world worked? -- Gregory Maguire
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Even God used silence as a strategy. -- Gregory Maguire
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By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret -- Gregory Maguire
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... but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin. -- Gregory Maguire
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I was quite a looker in my time," she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?
"Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that? -- Gregory Maguire
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In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats. -- Gregory Maguire
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How shallow the words are, really - She is a witch. One might as well say, She is a mother, thinks Iris; that about covers the same terrain, doesn't it? -- Gregory Maguire
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The moon passed overhead in its path from the Vinkus, and she felt its accusatory spotlight, and moved back from the tall windows. -- Gregory Maguire
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You can endure any sort of prison if you can apprehend a window in the dark. -- Gregory Maguire
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He had no other plans for the rest of his life. He followed her. -- Gregory Maguire
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But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before. -- Gregory Maguire
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It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to begin with. -- Gregory Maguire
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood. -- Gregory Maguire
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The reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it. -- Gregory Maguire
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct. -- Gregory Maguire
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We can't leave just like that." Cat was appalled. "Where can we find you if we need you again?"
[Baba Yaga] "You can't. Listen, Little Drear, I hate saying good-byes. I have a good strategy for avoiding them."
"What's that?" asked Anton.
"I eat my guests. -- Gregory Maguire
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Sometimes I think that vengeance is habit forming too. A stiffness of the attitude. -- Gregory Maguire
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We all have our shortcomings, it seems, though some are less visible than others. -- Gregory Maguire
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Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone. -- Gregory Maguire
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One plus one equals both. -- Gregory Maguire
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An odor of June mud, backwashed with essence of meadow-grass and a whiff of cow. -- Gregory Maguire
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In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place. -- Gregory Maguire
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When Sister Saint Aelphaba neither confirmed nor denied this plan, Oatsie began to understand why the payment to take the green maunt away had been more than generous. -- Gregory Maguire
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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. -- Gregory Maguire
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In the end, all disguises must drop. -- Gregory Maguire
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To grow a song, you must plant a note. -- Gregory Maguire
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Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future -- Gregory Maguire
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The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself. -- Gregory Maguire
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You charming idiot. -- Gregory Maguire
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Where shall I say you've gone?"
She threw an arm about airily. "Oh, way up high. Over the rainbow somewhere, I guess. -- Gregory Maguire
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But let me remember what I choose. -- Gregory Maguire
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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die. -- Gregory Maguire
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The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on. -- Gregory Maguire
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose.
I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered. -- Gregory Maguire
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There's no need to hear gossip about government. It'll only give you gas. -- Gregory Maguire
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Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only... -- Gregory Maguire
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Though who knows the architecture of the mind, and whether the arches that open upon discrete episodes are ordered in any way sequentialy? -- Gregory Maguire
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The wind was picking up, and the Scarecrow shivered. -- Gregory Maguire
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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through. -- Gregory Maguire
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How very like a dream this all is. -- Gregory Maguire
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What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine. -- Gregory Maguire
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The premise is prejudicial and proves that what's wanted here isn't a trial but a conviction. -- Gregory Maguire
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It's hard to find evil in this world,' said the Witch. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. -- Gregory Maguire
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You always had an eye for the fellow with a decent helping of sausage and hard-boiled eggs. -- Gregory Maguire
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What a world I've come up through, said Liir to himself. Oh, what a world, what a world. -- Gregory Maguire
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it. -- Gregory Maguire
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You know our Alice. She plays hide-and-seek but sometimes forgets to ask someone to look for her. -- Gregory Maguire
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And that aroma of sex ... soft baby asparagus cut with a weak solution of Clorox. -- Gregory Maguire
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A more ancient precedent of ransom, that we may not always be tormented by our shame. -- Gregory Maguire
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Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away. -- Gregory Maguire
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She looked as if she'd swallowed an assortment of her own hangnails. -- Gregory Maguire
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That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try. -- Gregory Maguire
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No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no. -- Gregory Maguire
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward. -- Gregory Maguire
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Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them. -- Gregory Maguire
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You can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there. -- Gregory Maguire
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It was hard to tell what her weapons were, except for that sort of inane good sense and emotional honesty. -- Gregory Maguire
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments. -- Gregory Maguire
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Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true ... we call it history. -- Gregory Maguire
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There was much to hate in this world and too much to love. -- Gregory Maguire
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who knows what we want? We're all mysteries, even to ourselves. -- Gregory Maguire
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice. -- Gregory Maguire
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bent ostentatiously to her work. -- Gregory Maguire
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And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe. -- Gregory Maguire
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Not everyone can fly by bubble ! -- Gregory Maguire
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You mean you indulged in adultery and you dont' even have the benefit of a good saucy memory about it. -- Gregory Maguire
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I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said. -- Gregory Maguire
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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery. -- Gregory Maguire
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I'm not involved in shame. Morals are learned in childhood, and I didn't have any such holiday called childhood. -- 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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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it. -- Gregory Maguire
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What is strange is that we may remember what we have done, but not always why we did it. -- Gregory Maguire
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Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler? -- Gregory Maguire
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I learned failure early and mastered it. -- Gregory Maguire