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Winter still comes after autumn though you may have died over the summer.
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The fatal day rarely announces itself, but comes disguised as midsummer. Our private lives are like a colony of worlds expanding, contracting, breathing universal air into separate knowledges. Or like several packs of cards shuffled together by an expert anonymous hand, and dealt out in a random, amused or even hostile way.
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Surely there is the handful of nursery marchen that start, 'Once in the middle of a forest lived an old witch' or 'The devil was out walking one day and met a child,' " Said Oatsie, who was showing that she had some education as well as grit. "To the grim poor there need be no pour quoi tale about where evil arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the righ..
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Well, your opinion is as good as hers, I think," said Elphaba. "That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?"
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Gregory Maguire |
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Given a long enough time, of course, a wide enough frame, there is nothing said or done, ever, that isn't ironic in the end.
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Gregory Maguire |
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No, my girl, you know nothing of how we women are imprisoned in our lives, but there are ways to determine the sentence we must serve.
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Gregory Maguire |
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All of life hinges on what one does next, until finally one makes the wrong choice.
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The overdressed traveller betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveller knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.
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Gregory Maguire |
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you'll understand when you're older. Or anyway not understanding will become second nature, and it won't matter.
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Those born dull remain dull
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It never is the who, is it? It's always the why." -Elphaba"
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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.
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Gregory Maguire |
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness... Women are weaker, but their weakness is full of cunning and an equally rigid moral certainty. Since their arena is smaller, their capacity for real damage is less alarming.
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What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?
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No doubt Noah offered his wife that olive branch. Forty days in a boat with those animals to clean up after? A peace offering likely all that stood between their marriage and bloody murder.
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Gregory Maguire |
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How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.
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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." "That's revolting." "Is it? I always wondered if that baby was a colicky brat and both women were really trying to pawn it off on the other one."
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Gregory Maguire |
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Please, I know nothing of the world, except my father is lost in it.
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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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It was hard to tell what her weapons were, except for that sort of inane good sense and emotional honesty.
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She added, perhaps to herself, "You have to become old and ugly before anyone listens to you, and then they don't, because you're ugly and old."
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I'm just doing your tea, Mum," he said. "Are you all imbecilic? Is that a requirement of enlisted men? It's Lady GLINDA!" She was losing it, big time. "Get me Murth!"
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Deslizando as maos ao longo das costelas dela ate a planura do seu abdomen. Ela trazia-lhe sempre as maos de volta aos seios delgados e expressivos; nao permitia ser tocada por maos abaixo da cintura. Moveram-se em simultaneo, diamantes azuis num campo verde.
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As pessoas dizem <> a toda a hora, mas habitualmente querem dizer <>.
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We are an experiment in situation ethics set by the unnamed god.
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Finally the gorilla queen had had enough. She wrote a letter to the editor of and asked for advice. The editor printed her letter (but in order to protect her privacy, changed her name from 'Gorilla Queen' to 'Worried in the Royal Castle'). The editor suggested hiring a local hunter to take the little troublemaker out into the woods, kill him, and cut his heart out and bring it back. 'Check page 44 of last month's issue for delicious reci..
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Children talk themselves out of their convictions as they grow up and become distracted by their huge selfish selves. All the literature is consistent on this point. Children begin to think they've imagined us.
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A little bird told me," said the Lion."
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Gregory Maguire |
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There was no apology for the way the world worked. Only accommodation to it, while at the same time committing--somehow--not to give up.
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Gregory Maguire |
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It's more convenient to have a hero waiting in the wings than to endure a blowhard standing in the spotlight.
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What words she had thought to write on the face of the moon were washed away from her as she submerged, trying to disturb no one, nothing. Trying not so much as to interrupt a current, even trying not to shatter into soft-edged platelets the green moon in the reflection. Trying to sidestep having any influence at all, now and till the end of her life.
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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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Lost is not an address, it's not permission to fail, it's not an excuse.
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Mergaitems reikia salto pykcio. Joms butina apgalvota neapykanta, pagieza, leidzianti isvengti kompromisu, vengimas atleisti. Joms reikia zinoti, jog pasakytu zodziu neatsiims, niekada, niekada. Tai kompensacija uz ribotas moteru galimybes pasaulyje. <...> Stok skersai kelio moteriai, ir neabejok - ji nepamirs nuoskaudos ir puoseles savo kersta nors ir visa amzinybe, jei to reikes.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Blogis nera negeri poelgiai, o tai, kaip bjauriai po to jautiesi.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Some realities are too onerous to be borne by nations, let alone by children.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Bu dunyada cefa ahirette sefa mi? Yok daha neler!
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Gregory Maguire |
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There's no need to hear gossip about government. It'll only give you gas.
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Gregory Maguire |
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So Oxford, at its inception a huddle of theologicians and divines, grew into a city of dreams, and much good may come of that. Little surprise that Middle-earth and Narnia were both discovered here.
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Gregory Maguire |
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She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet.
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Gregory Maguire |
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Everything changes you, and you change everything.
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Gregory Maguire |
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La gente que dice ser malvada no suele ser peor que el resto de nosotros -suspiro-. Pero la gente que dice ser buena, o mejor que los demas en algun aspecto, esa gente si que es peligrosa.
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Gregory Maguire |
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You lost your copper as well as your faith in wishes, and prayers.
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Gregory Maguire |
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But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.
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