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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...
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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.
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fairytales
storytelling
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Gregory Maguire |
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And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever come out? Not yet.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder
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Gregory Maguire |
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Oh now that's a blueprint for an impossibly rosy future
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.
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knitting
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Gregory Maguire |
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One plus one equals both.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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When you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even it it's a moronic proclamation ... Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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reading
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Gregory Maguire |
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Ambition without direction is like milk without a cup.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise 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 wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hund..
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Gregory Maguire |
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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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?"
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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
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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But now? Now? Children in the twentieth and this early twenty-first century hated the Alice books, couldn't read them, and why should they? Their world had strayed into madness long ago. Look at the planet. Rain is acid, poisonous. Sun causes cancer. Sex=death. Children murder other children. Parents lie, leaders lie, the churches have less moral credibility than Benetton ads. And the faces of missing children staring out from milk cartons-..
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Gregory Maguire |
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Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.
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time
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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.
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understanding
words
reading
wicked
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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I dabble in causes and effects.
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Gregory Maguire |
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How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.
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Gregory Maguire |
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perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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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.
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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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mind
mind-games
memory
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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.
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nature
world
life
peace
evil
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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?
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Gregory Maguire |
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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politics
retirement
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Gregory Maguire |
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It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived-- a hot-air balloon-- just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palac..
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Gregory Maguire |
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Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]"
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Gregory Maguire |
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Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it?
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lion
wicked
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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.
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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.
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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
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Gregory Maguire |
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The storm dropped a house on her head.
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Gregory Maguire |