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What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?
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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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You know our Alice. She plays hide-and-seek but sometimes forgets to ask someone to look for her.
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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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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Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
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He had no other plans for the rest of his life. He followed her.
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Now he was the minister and she the sinner, an arrangement she did not particularly enjoy.
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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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Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.
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How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[ ... ]None of us breaks free.
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Though who knows the architecture of the mind, and whether the arches that open upon discrete episodes are ordered in any way sequentialy?
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She looked as if she'd swallowed an assortment of her own hangnails.
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How could anyone live without flying?
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I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said.
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Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.
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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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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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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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That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
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Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it?
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All green things brown.
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Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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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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How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.
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How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.
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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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How brave that had made her feel, and how vulnerable too.
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belongs. I can't afford so much as a footman to scour Saint Petersburg." "You must afford it. It is said, 'One
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You always had an eye for the fellow with a decent helping of sausage and hard-boiled eggs.
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After all, what kind of a life is it that is not pestered by insects? A perfect one, and since life is not perfect, this cannot be life.
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Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone.
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When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
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At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.
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Sometimes I think that vengeance is habit forming too. A stiffness of the attitude.
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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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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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The reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.
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There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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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. — Gregory Maguire
In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil, and maybe splits apart and multiplies.
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The world pauses for royalty and deformity alike, and sometimes one can't tell the difference.
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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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My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.
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You charming idiot.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.
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So young, he knew nothing about aerodynamics, except how the heart could lift and lift.
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She claims they give her moral virtue too, but then she has buckets more of that than she needs.
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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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Noon is a disguise of whiteness put on by the eternal Night behind it.
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You can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there.
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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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Whimsy is fate, too: just less knowable.
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It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay.-Elphaba — Gregory Maguire
Frex had a notion that she wasn't sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back.
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Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she ...
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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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You give me dyspepsia, Avaric. You and the beans we had at lunch.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from.
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When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.
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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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What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake?
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Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.
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You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.
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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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Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away.
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But there was the mirror in which I would glimpse his handsome form, because mirrors don't lie about men, only women.
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Hens were wandering about like ladies at a lyceum tea trying to find their friends before selecting their seats.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that.
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Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choicejust policy — Gregory Maguire
Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler?
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And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.
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You can't criticize the size of a world.
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You lost your copper as well as your faith in wishes, and prayers.
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Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.
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It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba
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Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger— Gregory Maguire
No one is exempt from grief.
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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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history takes a long time to happen.
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