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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.
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Para mi, ese es el autentico poder del arte. No amonestar, sino provocar y desafiar. De otro modo, ?para que molestarse?
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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,
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Gregory Maguire |
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Aun estaba embadurnada con la sangre del parto y los comienzos acuosos de sus heces de lactante. La llevo a la puerta y la puso bajo la lluvia tibia. Cuando estuvo limpia, vio que era verde.
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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. . . .
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How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are, thought the Witch. None of us breaks free. 12 One afternoon a few weeks
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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery, she said to herself, not for the first time. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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Gregory Maguire |
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He shook his ladle overhead as if summoning the wrath of angel chefs among the stars.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Take care of yourself and beware high connections with bastards, because when the revolution comes there won't be mercy for toadying ass-lickers.
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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.
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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.
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So young, he knew nothing about aerodynamics, except how the heart could lift and lift.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Even a clock has teeth and time has a bite all of its own.
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Alice less winsome than weird, and treated Lydia like a Cerberus,
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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.
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A capacity for interiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation to squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hollowness. The syndrome especially plagues anyone who lives behind a mask. An Elephant in her disguise as a human princess, a Scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a Wizard's showbiz display, a cleric's stole, a scholar's gown, a so..
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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.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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A more ancient precedent of ransom, that we may not always be tormented by our shame.
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Gregory Maguire |
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an odor of June mud, backwashed with essence of meadow-grass and a whiff of cow.
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Gregory Maguire |
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They hadn't come so far just to be turned away because of adolescent radicalism.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Don't wish," said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only..."
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Y alli se quedo la vieja y malvada Bruja, durante mucho, muchisimo tiempo. --?Ha salido alguna vez? --Todavia no.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Was it an accident I saw that...or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
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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."
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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.
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She claims they give her moral virtue too, but then she has buckets more of that than she needs.
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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..."
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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.
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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."
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves as well. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen accidents, meetings and material assistance that no one could have dreamed would come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin..
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Who first, upon sensing the backward rush of memory said to signal the moment of death, was able to telegraph this apprehension to the family gathered around? Maybe the original gentleman descended from ape said the equivalent of "falling out of tree" to his common-law ape wife, and she interpreted his words as "just as he left for the dusty world beyond, his whole life passed before his eyes. Then he hit the ground." After all, falling out..
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You collect a hunderd pennies in one minute by Master's timepiece and you bought yourself free. Then they shakes a jar of coppers onto the belly of a shovel and holds it over the campfire long time. When they think it fun enough, they say, get yourself ready, and now you go, boy. The pennies go in the dirt around the fire and I got to pick them up and keep hold on them." "Oh," said Ada, with a sound like a kind of punch in the air, or out o..
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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.
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Boq sat down, and shook his head, as if bewildered by the apparition of Elphaba.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through. To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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Gregory Maguire |
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E tu? - Perguntou o Espantalho ao Lenhador de Lata, - O que farei se ganhar um coracao? - Zombou este. - Despedaca-lo-ei constantemente, suponho.
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she heard Mrs. Brummidge hiss at Rhoda, "Unseemly!" with the same tone of scandal she might have used had she been saying "Strumpet!" or "Baptist!"
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Gregory Maguire |
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Some lives are like steps and stairs, every period an achievement built on a previous success. Other lives hum with the arc of the swift spear. Only ever one thing, that dedicated life, from start to finish, but how magnificently concentrated its journey. The trajectory seems so true as to be proof of predestination. Still other lives are more like the progress of a child scrabbling over boulders at a lakeside--now up, now down, always the ..
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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The wind was picking up, and the Scarecrow shivered.
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Gregory Maguire |
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He has added inches and fullness to his beard since his last visit. I'll say no more.
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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.
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