Bill Willingham Quotes
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Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?
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Who can gauge all the ways in which the Gods who've created you craft your life?
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Life is a giant, coagulated bowl of suck.
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The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down.
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Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
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If they've managed to bring more firepower than us, we deserve to lose. But we aren't going to lose, because we're the Page sisters and we're librarians.
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...I give you real world-changers like Homer, Jack Kirby, and the aforementioned Shakespeare as the archangels of pure story.
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Sometimes impossible things are entirely possible, if there's magic enough in the world.
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One of the advantages of -- of this -- is that dying men are allowed complete and brutal candor.
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Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers? Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.
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Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred.
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It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.
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While he lived, entire worlds weren't enough to contain him. Now six good feet of earth are sufficient.
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Those who insist we band together tend to see themselves in charge.
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Yeah, well my heart bleeds for you: You know what they say. The only easy day was yesterday.
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The only easy day was yesterday.
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Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying. It cant make up for the evil done to you, but it can destroy the remaining good in your life.
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We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.
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Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.
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I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.
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Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain.
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Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair.
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I love you, Snow, and have since the hour we first met. Hell, I wanted you even before then. Since before we existed. As if every movement of every star and planet, every tick of creation's clock occurred only so that we could someday find each other.
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One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble.