“Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.”

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

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Novelist 1954

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“Now the mass of mankind are plainly... choosing a life like that of brute animals...”

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