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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?
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Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...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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When have we required anything of you? Except to survive?
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Death might be the only way forward for someone. Or it might seem so at the time
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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."
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words
history
thoughts
memories
past
memory
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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.
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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.
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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."
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sarcasm
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You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need, tell me why I should help, and I'll see what I can do. In memory of Elphaba. You knew her." Her head titled again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. "You knew my Elphie!"
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glinda
help
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Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That's called growing up.
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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."
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glinda
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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?"
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good
glinda
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Gregory Maguire |
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I'm a priest, I know better than most when a lie is permitted.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Die Wahrheit lasst sich nach Geschmack gestalten Denn Wahrheit ist, was alle dafur halten!
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Gregory Maguire |
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We are the next thing the Time Dragon is dreaming, and nothing to be done about it.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Being born with a talent or an inclination for goodness is the aberration.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Sooner or later we grow into deserving our own deaths, somehow.
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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. Even a bowed mirror works primarily by engaging the eyes, and she who centers herself in its surface is unlikely to notice anyone in the background who lacks a certain status, distinction.
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Gregory Maguire |
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but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?" the girl asked her.
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Gregory Maguire |
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In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.
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sense-of-self
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Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone.
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love
move-on
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Gregory Maguire |
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A mother to a reckless, feckless, one-off of a child--but what child isn't?
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Gregory Maguire |
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Not everyone can fly by bubble !
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Gregory Maguire |
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Oyle insansever, hayirsever gibi sozcukler kullanmam ben. Bence insan olmak demek tabiatta islenebilecek en igrenc cinayetleri islemeye muktedir olmak demektir.
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Dogustan bir yetenegin varsa ya da dogustan iyilige egilimin varsa... Sonunda aklini kaciriyorsun.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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You have your own life to live, 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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The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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The years peeled slowly off, one by one, or perhaps dozens at a time.
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Gregory Maguire |
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But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before.
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fantasy
fancy
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us." He sighed. "It's people who claim that they're good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of."
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Gregory Maguire |
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Gossip is instructive," said the Wizard. "It tells which way the wind is blowing." --
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Gregory Maguire |
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Chopin's theme, a simple descending descant the first time round, articulated itself in the repeat with nuanced embellishment. It was music remembering itself. It meant something different, something more, to hear those simple phrases repeated so soon, qualified by chromatic variations. Clarifications. Not redundancy, but a hypothesis about how consolation works. A second chance at getting it. A second chance at life.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Well, I learned to cook. At my age," she told him. "What's next? Art therapy? Anyway, I've had quite a time of it this summer, and who knows what eases down on any road. Come, Rain. A quick goodbye, and off you go." "Goodbye," said Rain to the Lion, and then to the woman. "Not to them," said Glinda, "To me." She turned eyes that were saucerly upon Glinda. "Mum?"
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rain
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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."
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Gregory Maguire |
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Lot of talky-talk in there, they had to open the windows to let the words out,
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