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d652716
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It was sort of like , thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in had been four little old ladies and if, instead of stirring cauldrons and intoning dread incantations, they had just welcomed Macbeth in and fed him turkey and rice and peas spread out on white china plates on a red-and-white patterned plastic tablecloth -- not to mention sweet potato pudding and spice cabbage -- and encouraged him to take second helping..
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macbeth
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Neil Gaiman |
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964b47e
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The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.
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Neil Gaiman |
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585923c
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Fox was here first, and his brother was the wolf. Fox said, people will live forever. If they die they will not die for long. Wolf said, no, people will die, people must die, all things that live must die, or they will spread and cover the world, and eat all the salmon and the caribou and the buffalo, eat all the squash and all the corn. Now one day Wolf died, and he said to the fox, quick, bring me back to life. And Fox said, No, the dead ..
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Neil Gaiman |
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c93cf8f
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Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.
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Neil Gaiman |
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25c69c8
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But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
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humour
funny
terry-prachett
good-omens
neil-gaiman
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Terry Prachett talking about Neil Gaiman |
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58ccd09
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Are you scared?' asked Mr. Ibis. 'Not really.' 'Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.
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Neil Gaiman |
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0a1c6ae
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I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone."
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poetry
love
sonnet
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Neil Gaiman |
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46947a2
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Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
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life
growing-up
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Neil Gaiman |
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4b77114
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It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.
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Neil Gaiman |
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72c323e
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Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?
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media
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Neil Gaiman |
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59ee136
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But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.
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Neil Gaiman |
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9073311
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I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.
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mirage
elderly
desert
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Neil Gaiman |
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af0f4b6
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It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.
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Neil Gaiman |
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3d5008f
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There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death.
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Neil Gaiman |
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f159f46
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Now me," said Mr. Vandemar. "What number am I thinking of?" "I beg your pardon?" "What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot," he added, helpfully."
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wordplay
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Neil Gaiman |
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0fdf944
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When people tell you there's something wrong with a story, they're almost always right. When they tell what it is that's wrong and how it can be fixed, they're almost always wrong.
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Neil Gaiman |
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a8e0945
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Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?" Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author."
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goals-in-life
authors
growing-up
goals
writers
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Neil Gaiman |
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445910b
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You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But -- you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar... Ask yourselves, all of you... What power would hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?
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heaven
hell
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Neil Gaiman |
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9902a79
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Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman...
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nothingness
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Neil Gaiman |
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7d24d1f
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It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer.
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Neil Gaiman |
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4d0faa3
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We all have stories. Or perhaps it's because, as humans, we are already an assemblage of stories and the gulf that exists between us as people is that when we look at each other we might see faces, skin color, gender, race, or attitudes. But we don't see - we can't see the stories. And once we hear each other's stories, we realize the things we see as dividing us are all too often illusions; falsehoods. That the walls between us are, in tru..
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Neil Gaiman |
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37e7ad9
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You have your milk," he said. "Where there is milk, there is hope."
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Neil Gaiman |
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80428fd
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CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional conte..
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humor
sable-black
sony-walkman
good-omens
famine
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Neil Gaiman |
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f26bc79
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Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice-cream.
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Neil Gaiman |
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6384ce4
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One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fung..
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death
graveyard
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Neil Gaiman |
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67994eb
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It's a weird thing, writing. Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer's day. You can see every leaf on every tree, and hear the birdsong, and you know where you'll be going on your walk. And that's wonderful. Sometimes it's like driving through fog. You can't really see where you're going. You have just enough of the road in front of you to know that you'r..
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Neil Gaiman |
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1c61bde
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Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them.
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spider-bites
spiders
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Neil Gaiman |
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eddc4f7
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To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love.
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Neil Gaiman |
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7c46be1
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A voice from the creature, smooth as buttered oil. "He-llo," is said. "Ding-dong. You look remarkably like dinner." I'm Charlie Nancy," said Charlie Nancy. "Who are you?" I am Dragon," said the dragon. "And I shall devour you in one slow mouthful, little man in a hat." Charlie blinked. What would my father do? He wondered. What would Spider have done?... Er. You're bored with talking to me now, and you're going to let me pass unhindered," h..
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Neil Gaiman |
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4bb0591
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Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.
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Neil Gaiman |
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755c156
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Not gay, just never met the right woman.
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Neil Gaiman |
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2f3c0af
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You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers.
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Neil Gaiman |
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14535d2
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Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
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life
mistakes
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Neil Gaiman |
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45b125d
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I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions.
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Neil Gaiman |
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467959f
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It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
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fantasy
m-is-for-magic
fairytale
neil-gaiman
children
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Neil Gaiman |
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770227e
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For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.
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Neil Gaiman |
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b9fe802
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I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.
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mr-wednesday
neil-gaiman
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Neil Gaiman |
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5301c0e
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But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable.
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Neil Gaiman |
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c7ba689
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You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.
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Neil Gaiman |
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509d7d6
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But. My hammer," said Thor. "Shut up, Thor," said Loki"
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thor
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Neil Gaiman |
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224bc32
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When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have."
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Neil Gaiman |
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6455090
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We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story.
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Neil Gaiman |
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c01535d
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'Door,' called Richard. 'Don't do it. Don't set it free. We don't matter.' 'Actually,' said the marquis, 'I matter very much. But I have to agree. Don't do it.'
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london-below
wise-guys
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Neil Gaiman |
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d0a13e1
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Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.
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memory
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Neil Gaiman |