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It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.
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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.
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Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to si..
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home
isolation
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Gregory Maguire |
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Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it.
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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.
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gestures
love
lovers
lust
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Gregory Maguire |
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d47f887
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She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?"
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Gregory Maguire |
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0c77f22
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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.
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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.
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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.
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inspirational
travel
wicked
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Gregory Maguire |
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10a0d4b
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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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-"
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ugly
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Gregory Maguire |
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You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming.' Boq held his breath. But you're little!' she concluded. ..
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Gregory Maguire |
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aebe365
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she...
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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?
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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.
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fantasy
wicked
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Gregory Maguire |
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3f1380c
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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melena
mother
pregnancy
wicked
child
reality
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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."
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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ef3842e
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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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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.
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character
death
dissociation
resolve
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Gregory Maguire |
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0e02342
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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Gregory Maguire |
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5dcab00
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make of the hollow world a fuller, messier, prettier place, but all our inventions can't create the one thing we require: to deserve any fond attention we might accidentally receive, to receive any fond attention we don't in the course of things deserv..
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expectations
falling-below-expectations
never-enough
requirements
self-hate
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Gregory Maguire |
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ddfa3c6
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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Gregory Maguire |
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d3529ef
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This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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ca56cae
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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Why should I keep myself so safe?" he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life worth preserving? With a good wife back there in the mountains, serviceable as an old spoon, dry in the heart from having been scared of marriage since she was six? With three children so shy of their father, the Prince of the Arjikis, that they will hardly come near him? With a careworn clan moving here, moving there, going through t..
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fiyero
gregory-maguire
love
wicked
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Gregory Maguire |
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d018d6a
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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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Gregory Maguire |
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The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.
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Gregory Maguire |
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He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.
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Gregory Maguire |
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bfb414f
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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.
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crisis
victims
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Gregory Maguire |
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b5ff9d7
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Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.
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Gregory Maguire |
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7a3e9a4
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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family
impermanence
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Gregory Maguire |
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26858f8
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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6835265
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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.
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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."
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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."
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Gregory Maguire |
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3a499c5
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Of course. You get everything from books.
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knowledge
reading
wicked
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Gregory Maguire |
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bb7394c
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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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Gregory Maguire |
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bfc2907
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The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.
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Gregory Maguire |