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Mister whoever-the-fuck you are," said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, "there isn't enough money in the world."
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If you saw two groups of children arguing over which of them could play in some waste ground, would you chose sides?
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a39b794
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Richard made a break for it. 'Sorry,' he said to the stunned guard, as he yanked his arm out of the man's grip, and fled. 'Wrong London.'
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neverwhere
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Neil Gaiman |
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c42e0fd
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Somewhere in the night, someone was writing.
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Neil Gaiman |
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5c968eb
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When your children grow, when your dark locks begin to silver, when you are an old woman, alone with your three bears, what will you see? What stories will you tell?
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I borrowed a copy of by Roger Lancelyn Green and read and reread it with delight and puzzlement: Asgard, in this telling, was no longer a Kirbyesque Future City but was a Viking hall and collection of buildings out on the frozen wastes; Odin the all-father was no longer gentle, wise, and irascible, but instead he was brilliant, unknowable, and dangerous; Thor was just as strong as the Mighty Thor in the comics, his hammer as powerful, but..
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reality-check
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2fa5467
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The next morning he boarded the train for the six-hour journey south that would bring him to the strange gothic spires and arches of St. Pancras Station. His mother gave him a small walnut cake that she had made for the journey and a thermos filled with tea; and Richard Mayhew went to London feeling like hell.
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Where's Rory? I want him, right now,' demanded Amy as the TARDIS lurched away into space and time. The Doctor had only briefly met her fiance, Rory Williams, once before. She didn't think the Doctor understood what she saw in Rory. Some days, she was not entirely sure what she saw in Rory. But she was certain of this: nobody took her fiance away from her. 'Good question. Where's Rory? Also, where's seven billion other people?' he asked. '..
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A story that began with, and exists because of, my love of the remoter parts of Scotland, where the bones of the Earth show through, and the sky is a pale white, and it's all astoundingly beautiful, and it feels about as remote as any place can possibly be.
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Neil Gaiman |
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5841a19
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Hemos sido inevitablemente retenidos por el mundo. Cuenta con volver a vernos cuando nos veas.
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9ddc897
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If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports.
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It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland analogy)-dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers-desire swears by the first circle-"things are changing"-what can possibly go wrong?" --
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love
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179b9d5
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I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies...
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inner-child
children
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40c5668
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Does it work? Are they happier dead?" "Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the 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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aefd273
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Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind."
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e0b2614
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Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.
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libraries
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e35198c
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I can tell you this, you never say no to the opportunity to piss, to eat, or to get an half-hour's shut eye...
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Neil Gaiman |
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But...is that all there was? Is that all I get? Yes, I'm afraid so.
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cd90590
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All we really know of the universe is what filters in through our senses, and that isn't a whole lot. Take the electromagnetic spectrum. It includes virtually every ripple of energy that powers the cosmos, from the long, lazy radio waves we communicate with through microwaves that we cook with all the way up to X-rays and gamma rays, which pack enough punch into their wavelengths to outshine an entire galaxy. All that majesty, all that infi..
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6740185
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How Do You Feel This Morning When You Know What You Did Last Night?
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Are you going to do it? Go on. You have to do it. I bet you won't be any crapper than I was." Fat Charlie shrugged, in a way that, he hoped, indicated that he contained within him depths of crap as yet unplumbed."
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d348b45
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There was no moon, but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Learning how to be strong, to feel her own emotions and not another's, had been hard; but once you learned the trick of it, you did not forget.
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Neil Gaiman |
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0364721
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But time heals. Or at least it forms scabs.
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time
scab
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fc417d2
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Outside, the world had become a formless, swirling mist with no shapes or shadows behind it, while the house itself seemed to have twisted and stretched. It appeared to Coraline that it was crouching and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house--and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Information and knowledge: these are currencies that have never gone out of style.
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God who knows all things, I have no prayer book and I do not know any prayers by heart. But you know all the prayers. You are God. So this is what I am going to do. I am going to say the alphabet, and I will let you put the words together.
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The voice came from the night all around him, in his head and out of it. "What do you want?' it repeated. He wondered if he dared to turn and look, realised he did not. 'Well? You come here every night, in a place where the living are not welcome. I have seen you. Why?' 'I wanted to meet you,' he said, without looking around. 'I want to live for ever.' His voice cracked as he said it. He had stepped over the precipice. There was no going ba..
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life
vampires
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I opened the door. "Don't do that," said a green, globby person. "You'll let the space-time continuum in."
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Neil Gaiman |
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c1d1e10
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All the dinosaurs have gone off into the stars, leaving the world to mammals.
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Neil Gaiman |
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There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting. That is the tale; the rest is detail. There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it too deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth p..
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It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is.
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Neil Gaiman |
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There were three of them there, then, and Amabella was introducing Bod and he was shaking hands and saying, "Charmed, I'm sure," because he could greet people politely over nine hundred years of changing manners."
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Neil Gaiman |
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But," expostulated Josiah Worthington. "But. A human child. A living child. I mean. I mean, I mean. This is a graveyard, not a nursery, blast it."
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josiah-worthington
graveyard
neil-gaiman
ghost
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You're going back?" asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. "You're really leaving? But. You're my guardian." "I was you're guardian. But you are old enough to guard yourself. I have other things to protect."
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melancholy
sad
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0daca47
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And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes? I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then.
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time
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They say that each night, when the duties of state permit, she climbs, on foot, and limps, alone, to the highest peak of the palace, where she stands for hour after hour, seeming not to notice the cold peak winds. She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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Neil Gaiman |
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783c539
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Yes, I was scared of the Daleks and the Zarbi and the rest, but I was taking other, stranger, more important lessons away from my Saturday tea time serial. For a start, I became infected by the idea that there are an infinite number of worlds only a foot step away. And another part of the meme was this- some things are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside. And perhaps some people are bigger on the inside than they are on the ou..
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science-fiction
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Neil Gaiman |
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The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Can I hug you?" "Do you want to?"said Bod. "Yes." "Well then."He thought for a moment."I don't mind if you do." "My hands won't go through you or anything?You're really there?" "You won't go through me,"he told her,and she threw her arms around him and squeezed him so tightly he could hardly breathe."
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graveyard-book
scarlett
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a9792b6
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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed. --AGNES REPPLIER, TIMES AND TENDENCIES
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How old are you?" "About fifteen, I think. Though I still feel the same as I always did," Bod said, but Mother Slaughter interrupted, "And I still feels like I done when I was a tiny slip of a thing, making daisy chains in the old pasture. You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it."
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change
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32f3e9d
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I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality I knew was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger. I saw the world from above and below. I saw that there were patterns and gates and paths beyond the real.
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Neil Gaiman |
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cb74749
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My parents had told me that I would not really die, not the real me: that nobody really died, when they died; that my kitten and the opal miner had just taken new bodies and would be back again, soon enough.
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reincarnation-quotes
reincarnation
die
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