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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.
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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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Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
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Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.
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Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.
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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Gregory Maguire
Born:
June 9, 1954
(age 69)
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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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