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Book cover for Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)

Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4) by Stephen King

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So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for ...more

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“The honest preachers had energy and go. They fought the devil, no holds barred, boots and eye-gouging permitted. You might get the idea that they howled truth and beauty the way a seal bites out the National Anthem on a row of circus horns.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“It is easy out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, ‘I couldn’t help it; the way was set.’ But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. Whatever”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.”
― Gregory Maguire

tags: choice, color, elphaba-thropp, gender, parents, the-wicked-witch, wicked, wizard-of-oz

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“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. We”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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