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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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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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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy,
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
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You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-
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That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
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Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad...
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We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn't as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness
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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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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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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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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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I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
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But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.
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This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.
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One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.
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It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.
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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
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No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
Gregory Maguire
Born:
June 9, 1954
(age 69)
Bio:
Gregory Maguire is an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children.
Known for:
Wicked (1995)
Out of Oz (2011)
Son of a Witch (2005)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999)
After Alice (2014)
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