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Frank Baum"></figure> <h1 class="author__headline"><span itemprop="name">L. Frank Baum</span> Quotes</h1> </div> <div class="author__about__description"> <p> <span itemprop="nationality"><a href="/nationality/us/">United States</a></span>, <span itemprop="jobTitle"><a href="/profession/4/">Journalist</a></span><br> <span itemprop="birthDate"> <a href="/born/may-15/" title="Was Born">May 15</a>, <a href="/born/1856/" title="birthdate_year_title">1856</a></span> – <span itemprop="deathDate" title="Died on">May, 6, 1919.</span></p><div class="cut" itemprop="description" id="author__description"> <p> Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known as L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote a total of 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. </p> <p> Also known as <a href="/profession/76/">Film Producer</a>, <a href="/profession/13/">Writer</a>, <a href="/profession/38/">Novelist</a>, <a href="/profession/15/">Actor</a>, <a href="/profession/101/">Children'S Writer</a>, <a href="/profession/75/">Screenwriter</a>, <a href="/profession/2/">Poet</a>, <a href="/profession/94/">Stage Actor</a>, <a href="/profession/77/">Science Fiction Writer</a>, <a href="/profession/39/">Editor</a>, <a href="/profession/83/">Film Actor</a>, <a href="/profession/822/">Suffragist</a> </p> </div> <span class="more" id="auhtor_info_more" more="more" less="Less">more</span> <ul class="author__about__options"><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum" class="i-wiki" target="_blank" itemprop="url" title="Wikipedia article about L. 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Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a1294/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/e/1294.v6.jpg" alt="L. Frank Baum"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">L. 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Once I thought it would be a good idea to regulate things myself and run the world as it ought to be run; but I gave it up long ago. The world's a stage, they say; but the show ain't always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn't have a reserved seat.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a1294/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/e/1294.v6.jpg" alt="L. Frank Baum"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">L. 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Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a1294/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/e/1294.v6.jpg" alt="L. Frank Baum"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">L. 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We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.'</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a1294/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/e/1294.v6.jpg" alt="L. Frank Baum"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">L. 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However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.'</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a1294/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/e/1294.v6.jpg" alt="L. Frank Baum"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">L. 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For SPEAKING:-Wind the Clockwork Man under his right arm, (marked No. 2). For WALKING and ACTION:-Wind Clockwork Man in the middle of his back, (marked No. 3). N. B.-This Mechanism is guaranteed to work perfectly for a thousand years.</a> </blockquote> <cite itemprop="spokenByCharacter" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/a1294/"> <figure class="character-image"> <img itemprop="image" src="//cdn.citatis.com/img/a/e/1294.v6.jpg" alt="L. Frank Baum"> </figure> <span class="cite-src" itemprop="name">L. 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