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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
There's a reason we live in time. We are too small a flask, even as an Elephant, to tolerate too much knowing. Instead, truth must drip through us as through a pipette, to allow only moments of apprehension. Moments diffuse and miniature enough to be survived.
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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
Rain spoke as slowly as she could, working her way like a tightrope artist across her thoughts, feeling them an instant before walking the words out.
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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through. To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
You always said I could see the present," said Candle, when she could speak. "But I can see nothing about her-my own daughter." Liir smoothed his hand over her silky flank. "Maybe that's not so surprising. Maybe all parents are blindest to their own offspring.
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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
I know Oz, now," she said, and in the carving of the lintel she found that common ideogram, a Z circled with an O. "Usually letters don't hide inside each other," she told Glinda firmly. "No, that's true. In Oz, I suppose, something is always hiding...
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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
She lived and breathed, Brrr knew, with a high tolerance for detachment - like a lake jellyfish floating in a glass casket, oblivious of japing crowds.
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Gregory Maguire
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A certain young scholar of Shiz Right before a philosophy quiz Guzzled splits of champagne So that he could declaim "I drink, and therefore I is.
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Out of Oz
Don't wish," said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only…
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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
She'll have to cross the distance herself. Trust me on that, Brrr. I know about it. Either she'll choose to visit us when there is enough of her present to visit, or day by day she'll learn to survive without needing what you need and I need.
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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
Humans are so blind, their eyes on the ground, themselves always at the center. Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much."
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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
The tedious never die; that's what makes them tedious.
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And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.
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