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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the ...

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Her head had turned quickly away...Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The real thing about evil… you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her — is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West