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“What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting, winds of change keep ripping away?”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

“The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz