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6074bdf
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Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk -- the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?"
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Neil Gaiman |
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There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coff..
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Neil Gaiman |
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Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.
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reality
worlds-end
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Neil Gaiman |
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You don't discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer them to read. And not everyone has the same taste as you.
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Neil Gaiman |
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263b895
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America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.
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death
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Neil Gaiman |
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When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once. And then go home. Or make a home. And rest.
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Neil Gaiman |
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I'm not scared of falling,' he told himself. 'The bit I'm scared of is the bit where you stop falling, and start being dead.
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Neil Gaiman |
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2852436
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It always ends. That's what gives it value.
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Neil Gaiman |
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bb0e312
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Hold fast," he called. "Tell me your names, and your stations." "I am the Lady Door," said Door. "I am Portico's daughter, of the House of the Arch." "I am Hunter. I am her bodyguard." "Richard Mayhew," said Richard. "Wet."
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Neil Gaiman |
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da26ae0
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I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.
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Neil Gaiman |
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a98258e
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Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?" "No."
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dream
delirium
sandman
gaiman
postmodernism
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Neil Gaiman |
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132f5ef
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There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
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graphic-novels
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Neil Gaiman |
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2725a74
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The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.
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science-fiction
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Neil Gaiman |
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We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.
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Neil Gaiman |
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250494f
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Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.
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eyes
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Neil Gaiman |
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He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all--except possibly on an organic level--had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night.
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humor
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Neil Gaiman |
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91fdec7
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It is a long story, and it does no credit to anyone: there is murder in it, and trickery, lies and foolishness, seduction and pursuit. Listen.
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Neil Gaiman |
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5de47d7
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The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.
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Neil Gaiman |
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2ba4238
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Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.
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ghost-children
tricky-situations
wise-words
tricky
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Neil Gaiman |
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4b73be6
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Time is fluid here', said the Demon.
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Neil Gaiman |
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And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterwards it seemed able to do 250 miles on a gallon of petrol, ran so quietly that you practically had to put your mouth over the exhaust pipe to see if the engine was firing , and issued its voice-synthesized warnings in a series of exquisite and perfectly-phrased haikus, each one original and apt... Late frost burns the bloom Would a fool not let t..
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Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman |
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When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.
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Neil Gaiman |
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5d1ac5e
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When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing was an easy number one.
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Neil Gaiman |
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81ad3f1
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It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that society is huge and the individual is less than nothing. But the truth is individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.
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Neil Gaiman |
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9b06e9a
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She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men."
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fathers
single-parenting
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Neil Gaiman |
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144709f
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If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?
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Neil Gaiman |
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cbf2ff6
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Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.
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libraries
reading
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Neil Gaiman |
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89582d4
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She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling.
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Neil Gaiman |
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e394c58
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We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others' pain and loss.
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Neil Gaiman |
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d018147
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If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.
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Neil Gaiman |
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9362f83
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Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.
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Neil Gaiman |
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There are no whores in Scaithe's Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have always been many women who, if pressed, would describe themselves as much-married, with one husband on this ship here every six months, and another husband on that ship, back in port for a month or so every nine months. The mathematics of the thing have always kept most folk satisfied; and if ever it disappoints and a man returns to his wife ..
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whores
sea
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Neil Gaiman |
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997890e
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before
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inspirational
art-matters
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Neil Gaiman |
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b798377
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The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you're different- you're stronger, you've seen more, you've felt more. Stories are like spiritual currency.
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Neil Gaiman |
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I don't really like driving in the snow. There's something about the motion of the falling snowflakes that hurts my eyes, throws my sense of balance all to hell. It's like tumbling into a field of stars.
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stars
worlds-end
sandman
snow
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Neil Gaiman |
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15c7e39
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It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.
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Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman |
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You're very good. Are you a professional artist?" "I dabble," she said. Shadow had spent enough time talking to the English to know that this meant either that she dabbled, or that her work was regularly hung in the National gallery or the Tate Modern."
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Neil Gaiman |
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801d45d
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I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.
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Neil Gaiman |
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2b293e3
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It's like people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Neil Gaiman |
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409ef9d
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Mostly you are what they think you are.
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reality
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Neil Gaiman |
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7fb1ee3
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Were you always like this?' 'Like what?' 'A madman. With a time machine.' 'Oh, no. It took ages until I got the time machine.
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Neil Gaiman |
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d26b23d
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In the pale light of the Moon I play the game of you. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of where I am, of who I am and where I'm going, has been swallowed by the dark. And I walk through the stars and sky... a trinity of dreams beneath the moon.
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Neil Gaiman |