"It [the Wonderful Wizard of Oz] was pure inspiration," he [Baum] said, "It came to me right out of the blue. I think that sometimes the Great Author has a message to get across and He has to use the instrument at hand. I happened to be that medium, and I believe the magic key was given me to open the doors to sympathy and understanding, joy, peace and happiness."
Baum, Lyman Frank, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, ed. Michael Patrick Hearn, Centennial Edition, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, p. xcv.
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