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bbe675e
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You shine like a beacon in a dark world.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.
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Neil Gaiman |
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843b2da
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Everything that is,casts a shadow
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truth
shadow
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Neil Gaiman |
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He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them into trouble. Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god.
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saftey
loki
norse
mythology
trouble
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Neil Gaiman |
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058ad30
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Names come and names go.
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Neil Gaiman |
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6055142
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I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.
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Neil Gaiman |
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How old are you?" asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked; he would never have dared. "As old as my tongue," said Hunter, primly, "and a little older than my teeth."
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Neil Gaiman |
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5434e19
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It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.
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wine
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Neil Gaiman |
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Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above--that's where you lived--and then there's London Below--the Underside--inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you're one of them. Good night."
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london-above
underside
london-below
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cab1d69
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You got to understand the god thing. It's not magic. It's about being you, but the you that people believe in. It's about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It's about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize." He paused. "And then one day they forget about you, and they don't believe in you, and they don't sacrifice, and..
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Neil Gaiman |
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I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew."
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Neil Gaiman |
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In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something that someone said at my first Milford, about using style as a covering, but sooner or later you would have to walk naked down the street, that was useful... And then I remembered. It was Harlan Ellison about a decade ago. He said, "Hey. Gaiman. What's with the stubble? Every time I see you, you're stubbly. What is it? Some k..
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author
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Neil Gaiman |
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We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.
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Neil Gaiman |
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I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.
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dreams
sandman
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Neil Gaiman |
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3b76a10
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There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.
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mythical-beasts
stardust
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Neil Gaiman |
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1c37a57
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Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all.
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ice-cream
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Neil Gaiman |
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9087173
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Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end." And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes."
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Neil Gaiman |
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In every big-budget science fiction movie there's the moment when a spaceship as large as New York suddenly goes to light speed. A twanging noise like a wooden ruler being plucked over the edge of a desk, a dazzling refraction of light, and suddenly the stars have all been stretched out thin and it's gone. This was exactly like that, except that instead of a gleaming twelve-mile-long spaceship, it was an off-white twenty-year-old motor scoo..
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Neil Gaiman |
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ef8c247
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You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.
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Neil Gaiman |
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ab4d6a5
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Silver chains come in all shapes and sizes.
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Neil Gaiman |
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fb829a7
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Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the dog. "Only not toffee ones. They make me drool." "I thought chocolates weren't very good for dogs," she said, remembering something Miss Forcible had once told her. "Maybe where you come from," whispered the little dog. "Here, it's all we eat."
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dogs
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Neil Gaiman |
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The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape?"
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Neil Gaiman |
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61275f3
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Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?
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Neil Gaiman |
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cb298d8
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I'll be your puppy. What do you want me to do? Chew your slippers? Piss on the kitchen floor? Lick your nose? Sniff your crotch? I bet there's nothing a puppy can do that I can't do!
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puppy
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Neil Gaiman |
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11364ff
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Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?
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Neil Gaiman |
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45d0322
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The moonlight was enough. It would do.
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Neil Gaiman |
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d2dc724
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So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."
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laura
shadow
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Neil Gaiman |
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5068b04
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I was not scared of anything, when I read my book...
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Neil Gaiman |
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7d78bdd
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Always worth it to have tried, even if you fail, even if you fall like a meteor forever. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness, cursing the people who borrowed, but did not return, your candle.
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Neil Gaiman |
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But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.
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Neil Gaiman |
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64cb4a5
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I have a feeling,' he said, 'I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me.
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Neil Gaiman |
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29924cf
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We have teeth and we have tails We have tails we have eyes We were here before you fell We will be here when you rise.
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lyrics
gaiman
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Neil Gaiman |
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844a5e6
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I missed her, deeply, painfully. But life goes on.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.
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fiction
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Neil Gaiman |
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I sometimes imagine I would like my ashes to be scattered in a library. But then the librarians would just have to come in early the next morning to sweep them up again, before the people got there.
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Neil Gaiman |
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The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves.
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winter
pretty-words
night
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Neil Gaiman |
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762099a
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Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.
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unheeded-predictions
prophets
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Neil Gaiman |
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By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again. Not that year. Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold.
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winter
march
thaw
ice
spring
snow
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Neil Gaiman |
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74565e9
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You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.
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river
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Neil Gaiman |
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722c3b6
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Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
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metaphor
truth
rumors
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Neil Gaiman |
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c3000dd
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He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.
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novels
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Neil Gaiman |
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554156e
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Nothin' wrong with witchfinding. I'd like to be a witchfinder. It's just, well, you've got to take it in turns. Today we'll go out witchfinding, an' tomorrow we could hide, an' it'd be the witches' turn to find US.
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Neil Gaiman |
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c5bf580
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Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to do.
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Neil Gaiman |
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2260e67
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I remembered something somebody had once said to me. It's okay. Everyday is freshly ground.
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Neil Gaiman |