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85cdbf4
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People named Tinkerbell name their daughters Susan.
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tinkerbell
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Neil Gaiman |
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It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad; I found this far more disquieting than the alternative.
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smoke-and-mirrors
murder-mysteries
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And then it crumbled in his hand. It was just dust... Sand... A glittering, multicolored sand that fell away into the chilly wind at the end of the world.
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Neil Gaiman |
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8bcecbf
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I will not be my father's dog.
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dogs
baldur
odin
shadow
father
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Neil Gaiman |
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63a11d6
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Poetry ain't what you'd call truth. There ain't room enough in the verses.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Shadow walked the meadow, making his own slow circles around the trunk of the tree, gradually widening his circle. Sometimes he would stop and pick something up: a flower, or a leaf, or a pebble, or a twig, or a blade of grass. He would examine it minutely, as if concentrating entirely on the twigness of the twig, the leafness of the leaf, as if he were seeing it for the first time. Easter found herself reminded of the gaze of a baby, at th..
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Neil Gaiman |
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In winter the men would fight and fart and sing and sleep and wake and fight again, and the women would shake their heads and sew and knit and mend.
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Neil Gaiman |
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He had imagined Scotland as being a soft place, all gentle heathery hills, but here on the north coast everything seemed sharp and jutting, even the grey clouds that scudded across the pale blue sky. It was as if the bones of the world showed through.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Sempre quis saber o que aconteceu com as criancas depois que voaram para longe...
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Neil Gaiman |
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It is only a gesture," he said, turning back to Shadow. "But gestures mean everything. The death of one dog symbolizes the death of all dogs."
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Names. Names. The old woman squinted, then she shook her head. She was herself, and the name she had been born with had been eaten by time and lack of use.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Wednesday was talking to him. "I'm sorry?" said Shadow. "I said we're here," said Wednesday. "You were somewhere else."
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They heard a distant rumbling, like thunder on the peaks, or mountains crumbling, or huge waves crashing to shore, and the earth shook with each rumble. "My husband is coming home," said the giantess. "I hear his gentle footsteps in the distance."
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Neil Gaiman |
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aaf13d3
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I have always felt," he said, "that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept."
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Neil Gaiman |
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a8460c8
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I believe I have the right to think and say the wrong things. I believe your remedy for that should be to argue with me or to ignore me, and that I should have the same remedy for the wrong things that I believe you think.
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Neil Gaiman |
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86e36d8
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I would not have understood that the best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming, nor that the majesty and the magic of belief and dreams could be a vital part of life and of writing.
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Neil Gaiman |
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He stopped for a moment, and he thought about people, and about things, and about how hard it is to do anything for the first time.
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Neil Gaiman |
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I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen--I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look l..
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Neil Gaiman |
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71bf144
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Books were safer than other people anyway. (...) I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Neil Gaiman |
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e179679
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Rock City begins as an ornamental garden on a mountain side: its visitors walk a path that takes them through rocks, over rocks, between rocks. They throw corn into a deer enclosure, cross a hanging bridge, and peer out through a-quarter-a-throw binoculars at a view that promises them seven states on the rare sunny days when the air is perfectly clear. And from there, like a drop into some strange hell, the path takes visitors, millions upo..
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Neil Gaiman |
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3485791
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He thought about going out and buying a Sunday paper but decided not to. Arnold Stockton, Jessica's boss, a many-chinned, self-made caricature of a man, owned all the Sunday papers that Rupert Murdoch had failed to buy. His own papers talked about him, and so did the rest. Reading a Sunday paper would, Richard suspected, probably end up reminding him of the dinner had failed to attend on Friday night. So instead Richard had a long hot bath ..
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sandwich-therapy
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5343fa2
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I would have given my life for you," she whispered, sadly. "Live," said the monk. "You shall be revenged," said the fox. "The onmyoji who did this to you will learn what it means to take something from a fox."
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Neil Gaiman |
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1dd75f7
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Things like that, they're too vicious to die.
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732a0f6
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Trolls can smell the rainbow, trolls can smell the stars. Trolls can smell the dreams you dreamed before you were ever born.
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Neil Gaiman |
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35125d6
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He was looking at Mr. Nancy, an old black man with a pencil moustache, in his check sports jacket and his lemon yellow gloves, riding a carousel lion as it rose and lowered, high in the air; and, at the same time, in the same place, he saw a jeweled spider as high as a horse, its eyes an emerald nebula, strutting, staring down at him; and simultaneously he was looking at an extraordinarily tall man with teak colored skin and three sets of a..
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Neil Gaiman |
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23b9554
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Stories are, in one way or another, mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn't work. Like mirrors, stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in the darkness.
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Neil Gaiman |
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bf92015
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I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise and sheer blind luck.
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Neil Gaiman |
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225130c
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I feel like I'm in a world with its own sense of logic. Its own rules. Like when you're in a dream, and you know there are rules you mustn't break. Even if you don't know what they mean. I'm just going along with it, you know?
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Neil Gaiman |
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cb8ea17
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You can take your gold, but afterwards, things are, things are . There is less beauty in a rainbow, less meaning in a sermon, less joy in a kiss...Less.
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morals
folklore
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7ef4731
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Been there, Remiel. Done that. Wore the T-Shirt, ate the burger, bought the original cast album, choreographed the legions of the damned and orchestrated the screaming.
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Neil Gaiman |
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He had a hundred arms that broke into a hundred thousand fingers, and all of his fingers reached up into the sky. The weight of the sky was heavy on his shoulders.
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Neil Gaiman |
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7d75c49
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The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored. For the most part it is uninspected, unimagined, unthought, a representation of the thing, and not the thing itself.
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THE DAY THE SAUCERS CAME "That day, the saucer day the zombie day The Ragnarok and fairies day, the day the great winds came And snows, and the cities turned to crystal, the day All plants died, plastics dissolved, the day the Computers turned, the screens telling us we would obey, the day Angels, drunk and muddled, stumbled from the bars, And all the bells of London were sounded, the day Animals spoke to us in Assyrian, the Yeti day, ..
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poetry
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054a14e
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Ali izmedu sadasnjice i konacnog kraja prostire se Zivot. Nit mu je krenuo ususret, sirom otvorivsi ne samo oci nego i srce.
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Neil Gaiman |
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d2f937a
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If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe. Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you betray them with your tongue. Do not be jealous of your sister. 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. Remember your n..
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poem
m-is-for-magic
instructions
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Neil Gaiman |
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fcf6138
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.
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Neil Gaiman |
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aac290e
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It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but then, back then, in with all the cuts and scrapes (her knees had scabs on top of scabs) she had had a feeling of achievement. She was learning something, doing something she had not known how to do. Now she felt nothing but cold loss. She had failed the ghost children. She had failed her parents. She had failed herself, failed everything.
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Neil Gaiman |
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cd35d5b
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Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.
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bundle
feuds
rosie
gaiman
prejudices
worries
mother
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Neil Gaiman |
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6547875
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I'll swap you my dad," I said. "Oh-oh," said my little sister."
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Neil Gaiman |
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0094dc1
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Biggest case we've had here in five years was when Dan Schwartz got drunk and shot up his own trailer, then he went on the run, down Main Street, in his wheelchair, waving this darn shotgun, shouting that he would shoot anyone that got in his way, that no one would stop him from getting to the interstate. I think he was on his way to Washington to shoot the president. I still laugh whenever I think of Dan heading down the interstate in that..
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Neil Gaiman |
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0789482
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that being brave didn't mean you weren't scared. Being brave meant you were scared, really scared, badly scared, and you did the right thing anyway.
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Neil Gaiman |
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c775847
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Could be anyone. . I mean... it's like calling yourselves the People. It's what pretty much every race-name means. Except for Dalek. That means in Skaronian.
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Neil Gaiman |
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158e381
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You want to know the future, love? Then wait:
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Neil Gaiman |
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dd2b9d8
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He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear;
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Neil Gaiman |