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moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.
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Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie's mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it did not meet her standards of hygiene, containing as it did, edible foodstuffs. "Coffee? Water?" Don't say wax fruit. "Wax fruit?" Damn."
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wax-fruit
rosie
gaiman
kitchen
mother
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Neil Gaiman |
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c9b2cb9
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I'm just a soul whose intentions are good,'" he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. '"Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood."
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good
neal-gaiman
the-animals
nina-simone
misunderstood
intentions
soul
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9de7ae3
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I realize I have stopped thinking about political divides, about freedom fighters or terrorists, about dictators and armies. I am thinking only of the fragility of civilization. The lives the refugees had were our lives: they owned corner shops and sold cars, they farmed or worked in factories or owned factories or sold insurance. None of them expected to be running for their lives, leaving everything they had because they had nothing to co..
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b942e8e
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he said nothing. It seemed the smartest thing to say.
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a64a16b
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Who wears masks?' 'Bank robbers?' 'No.' 'Really ugly people?' 'No.' 'Halloween? People wear masks at Halloween.' 'Yes! They do!' He flung his arms wide in delight. 'So that's important?' 'Not even a little bit. But it's true.
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funny
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b091499
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The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you are getting away with something, and that at any moment now they will discover you. It's Imposter Syndrome, something my wife Amanda christened The Fraud Police. In my case, I was convinced that there would be a knock on the door, and a man with a clipboard (I don't know why he carried a clipboard, in my head, but he did) would be there, to tell me i..
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writing
funny
inspiration
fraud-police
make-good-art
creative-writing
neil-gaiman
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YOU KNOW HOW IT IS. YOU PICK UP A BOOK, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the author has dedicated a book to someone else and not to you. Not this time. Because we haven't yet met/have only a glancing acquaintance/are just crazy about each other/ haven't seen each other in much too long/are in some way related/will never meet, but will, I trust, despite that, always think fondly of each other.... This one's for you. With yo..
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Delirium: Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it... the thing that lets you know time is happening. Is there a word? Dream: Change. Delirium: ...I was afraid of that.
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888aec7
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Per favore. Come ti chiami?- domando al gatto. -Senti, io mi chiamo Coraline. Okay? Il gatto sbadiglio lentamente e con attenzione, rivelando una bocca e una lingua di un rosa sorprendente. - I gatti non hanno nome - disse. - No? - No - disse il gatto. - Voi persone avete il nome. E questo perche non sapete chi siete. Noi sappiamo chi siamo, percio il nome non ci serve.
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aaf8c3c
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People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.
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6ba513b
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At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.
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0ec6c8f
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Shadow had noticed that you only ever catch one episode of shows you don't watch, over and over, years apart: he thought it must be some kind of cosmic law.
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Neil Gaiman |
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139ff93
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Por muy lejos que te vayas, nunca conseguiras huir de ti mismo.
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Neil Gaiman |
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c109001
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Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.' 'So you used to know everything?' She wrinkled her nose. 'Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work. And you really do have t give it all up if you want to play.' 'To play what?' 'This,' she said. She waved at the house and the sky and the impossible full moon and the skeins and shawls and clusters of bright ..
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6fc17c9
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Liza Hempstock, who had been Bod's friend for the last six years, was different in another way; she was less likely to be there for him when Bod went down to the nettle patch to see her, and on the rare occasions when she was, she would be short-tempered, argumentative and often downright rude. Bod talked to Mr Owens about this, and after a few moments' reflection, his father said, "It's just women, I reckon. She liked you as a boy, probabl..
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marriage
romance
love
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Neil Gaiman |
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e7133e3
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I made a list of inventions the world would be better off without and, one by one, I uninvented them all.
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Neil Gaiman |
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48efb55
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There are sneaking, creeping, crumpling noises coming from inside the walls.
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Neil Gaiman |
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94227e2
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he realized how much he wanted to take her pain away
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d5fec57
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We need individual stories. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, 'casualties may rise to a million'. With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even then that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless. Look, see the child's swollen, swollen belly, and the flies that crawl at the corners of his eyes, his skeletal limbs: wil..
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9a01155
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Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies."
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9f55e7b
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Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. 'I think...I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,
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a28f11b
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And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.
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good
neil-gaiman
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4041e66
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It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect;
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1ca5ea4
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truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
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6c10152
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Cats don't have shoulders, not like people do. But the cat shrugged, in one smooth movement that started at the tip of it's tail and ended in a raised movement of its whiskers.
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142d8aa
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There's a brotherhood of people who read and who care about books.
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Neil Gaiman |
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b944548
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There was still the wreckage of that man in there somewhere. That was what made him so terrible, and so sad.
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Neil Gaiman |
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c92d200
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Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot. "I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen?"
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8753a90
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Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs." --
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gaiman
neil
nudity
eggs
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346cba2
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I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me?
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806671c
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The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical.
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374147d
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She hugged herself and told herself that she was brave, and she almost believed herself [...]
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A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that people in the story change.But I was seven when all these things happened, and I was the same person at the end of it that I was at the beginning, wasn't I? So was everyone else. People don't change
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They could be French," said Pepper doggedly. "France is famous for onions." "It doesn't matter," said Adam, who was getting fed up with onions. "France is nearly Spanish, an' I don't expect witches know the difference, what with spendin' all their time flyin' around at night. It all looks like the Continong to witches. Anyway, if you don't like it you can jolly well go and start your own Inquisition, anyway."
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How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final tim..
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reading
other-worlds
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Neil Gaiman |
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3c4c4fc
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When the first living thing existed, I was there, waiting.
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sandman
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Neil Gaiman |
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278d160
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Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals.
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fantasy
humor
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Neil Gaiman |
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f2f363f
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It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best." -Destruction"
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confidence
happiness
philosophy
wisdom
inspirational
essential
knowledge-of-self
human-nature
values
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1534476
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Inside the pub, Richard's friends continued to celebrate his forthcoming departure with an enthusiasm that, to Richard, was beginning to border on the sinister.
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humor
going-away
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Neil Gaiman |
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492cc41
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The world is always ending for someone.
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end-of-the-world
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0310b39
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Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people just deal with it. Today, like every day, roughly five thousand people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things, and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses. Most of them will say the equivalent, in their own language, of "Funny old world, isn't it?" and just keep going."
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5267471
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It's what people do. They believe. And when they will not take responsibilities for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations.
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Neil Gaiman |
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677fccd
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I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
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