The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.
("Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West")
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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.Gregory Maguire
The moon passed overhead in its path from the Vinkus, and she felt its accusatory spotlight, and moved back from the tall windows.
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
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The cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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