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3312848
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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.
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time
revival
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Gregory Maguire |
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d5668a8
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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e077688
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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."
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Gregory Maguire |
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0fe3fbb
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I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness.
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Gregory Maguire |
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591d124
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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
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Gregory Maguire |
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64192de
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All paths lead to the same place, and that place is whatever comes next.
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Gregory Maguire |
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0a584b2
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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4000735
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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."
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egg-and-spoon
guests
witch
goodbye
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Gregory Maguire |
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739f980
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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c9cd886
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Everybody needs to grow up and leave home sometimes. But sometimes home doesn't like it.
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Gregory Maguire |
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7e5f6c4
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You might forget a story, but you can never unhear a story.
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Gregory Maguire |
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894b292
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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2d3894b
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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."
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liir
sad
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Gregory Maguire |
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8ab6b7c
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The wall read: ELPHIE LIVES OZMA LIVES THE WIZARD LIVES and then EVERYONE LIVES BUT US.
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ozma
wizard
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Gregory Maguire |
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8c78f00
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He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others.
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Gregory Maguire |
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2a7d79c
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He didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine, he thought, and the nuances to be teased from its pages are nearly infinite in their variety and coquettish appeal. And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.
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Gregory Maguire |
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95045a9
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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."
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Gregory Maguire |
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78ada23
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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d12b81e
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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b6e63b9
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When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.
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Gregory Maguire |
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5e8c822
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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Gregory Maguire |
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0635557
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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."
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Gregory Maguire |
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18c4fde
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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0cf042b
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What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you?" "I don't know, but can you introduce me?"
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Gregory Maguire |
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c13e756
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Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart.
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fiction
youth
maguire
smart
wicked
selfishness
young
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Gregory Maguire |
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750a886
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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 --.
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Gregory Maguire |
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0bb210e
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He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little.
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Gregory Maguire |
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ab20fac
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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Gregory Maguire |
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2cd75d4
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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?
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Gregory Maguire |
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ae13dab
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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.
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maguire
liir
gregory
of
witch
son
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Gregory Maguire |
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b599ff7
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Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler?
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Gregory Maguire |
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7b30478
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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work
motivation
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Gregory Maguire |
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ffe6144
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Happiness now sometimes meant turning away from what one remembered of earlier, better happiness.
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Gregory Maguire |
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f78d794
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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5c3ced3
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In her time Nor Tigelaar had faced insurrectionists and collaborationists and war profiteers. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold herself in sex not for cash but for military information that might come in handy to the resistance, and in so doing she'd come across a rum variety of human types.
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elphaba
oz
liir
out-of-oz
wicked
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Gregory Maguire |
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792a6d5
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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."
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Gregory Maguire |
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0908ab7
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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4c687f4
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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truth
inspirational-living
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Gregory Maguire |
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1e712b3
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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0888ac6
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments," said Frex."
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Gregory Maguire |
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36d7249
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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." --
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Gregory Maguire |
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1a1c3f1
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A story in a book has its own intentions, even if unknowable to the virgin reader, who just lollops along at her own pace regardless of the author's strategies, and gets where she will. After all, a book can be set aside for weeks, or for good. (Burned in the grate.) Alternatively, a story can be adored for centuries. But it cannot be derailed. A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it i..
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Gregory Maguire |
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765247c
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Liir didn't know what to say to that; he wasn't sure what husbandry was. "Animal husbandry," Trism explained, though in the noise of the bar, Liir couldn't tell if he said Animal or animal, the sentient or the nonsentient creature. "Training for military uses," said Trism at last. "Are you slow, or are you falling in love with me?" "
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Gregory Maguire |
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e337609
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The world pauses for royalty and deformity alike, and sometimes one can't tell the difference.
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Gregory Maguire |