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Gregory Maguire
“This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.”
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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Philip K. Dick
“No wonder Mr. Tagomi could not go on, he thought. The terrible dilemma of our lives. Whatever happens, it is evil beyond compare. Why struggle, then? Why choose? If all alternatives are the same . . . Evidently we go on, as we always have. From day to day. At this moment we work against Operation Dandelion. Later on, at another moment, we work to defeat the police. But we cannot do it all at once; it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step. He thought, We can only hope. And try. On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components. We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious. The”
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

Charlotte Brontë
“It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___"
"Well?"
"From you, sir”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.”
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Walter Isaacson
“The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.”40”
Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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