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Sometimes I wonder if she transforms people into animals, or whether she finds the beast inside us, and frees it.
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There are things you cannot throw away, things you cannot leave for your loved ones to find when you are gone. Things you have to burn.
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I feel dirty. I feel tarnished. I feel befouled. Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments.
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Scuse me," said a small and hairy voice in his ear, "but would you mind dreamin' a bit quieter? Your dreams is spillin' over into my dreams, and if there's one thing I've never been doin' with, it's dates. William the Conker, ten sixty-six, that's as far as I go, and I'd swap that for a dancing mouse."
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dreams
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Laura made a great chili. She used lean meat, dark kidney beans, carrots cut small, a bottle or so of dark beer, and freshly sliced hot peppers. She would let the chili cook for a while, then add red wine, lemon juice and a pitch of fresh dill, and, finally, measure out and add her chili powders. On more than one occasion Shadow had tried to get her to show him how she made it: he would watch everything she did, from slicing the onions and ..
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You don't pass or fail at being a person
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Most people do not notice other people.
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She called for her fiance and told him not to take on so, and that they would still be married, even if he was but a prince and she a queen, and she chucked him beneath his pretty chin and kissed him until he smiled.
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relationships
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The thing was white, and huge, and swollen. Monstrous, thought Coraline, but also miserable.
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So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.
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There are many for whom the lure of gold outweighs the beauty of a rainbow.
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The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People. - No, Monsieur Robespierre. There is much more than that.
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myths
stories
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You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.
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The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all."
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humor
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When angels go bad, Richard, they go worse than anyone. Remember, Lucifer used to be an angel.
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I wish I could purr, too. I would have purred then.
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forgetfulness can sometimes bring freedom of a sort
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When you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
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When I was four I believed everything, accepted everything, and was scared of nothing. Now I was eight, and I believed in what I could see and was scared of anything I couldn't. Scared of things in the darkness, of things invisible to see.
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fear
darkness
knowledge
unknown
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c5b8ae4
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A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..
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philosophy-of-life
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Books are really places, make no mistake about that.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Some skills can be attained by education, and some by practice, and some by time. Those skills will come if you study.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end.
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destiny
grey-ladies
sandman
ending
creation
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That," said Wednesday, driving off, "is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. Worm food. At night, you're rubbing yourself against worm food. No offense meant."
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You really don't understand, do you? I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn't mean anything.
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Neil Gaiman |
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We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.
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She tasted the day he lost his first job. She tasted the morning he had awakened, still drunk, in his car, in the middle of a cornfield, and, terrified, had sworn off the bottle for ever. She knee his real name. She remembered the name that had once been tattooed on his arm and knew why it could be there no longer. She tasted the color of his eyes from the inside, and shivered at the nightmare he had in which he was forced to carry spiny fi..
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smoke-and-mirrors
tastings
neil-gaiman
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Neil Gaiman |
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He was a gangling creature of potential, a barrel of dynamite waiting for someone or something to light his hues; but no one did.
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Neil Gaiman |
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I know how Gods begin, Roger. We start as Dreams. Then we walk out of Dreams into the Land. We are worshiped and loved, and take power to ourselves. And then, one day, there's no one left to worship us. And in the end, each little God and Goddess takes its last journey back into Dreams... and what comes after, not even WE know. I'm going to dance now, I'm afraid.
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ishtar
sandman
gods
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Now this comic contains words, concepts and maybe a few images that some people may find offensive. If you suspect you are going to be one of those people, there's a really easy solution to this. Don't read it. It's as simple as that.
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I believe that you have the absolute right to think things that I find offensive, stupid, preposterous or dangerous, and that you have the right to speak, write, or distribute these things, and that I do not have the right to kill you, maim you, hurt you, or take away your liberty or property because I find your ideas threatening or insulting or downright disgusting. You probably think some of my ideas are pretty vile too. I
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I know," said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. "I like your stories. Mine are always too dark." "I don't think so," said October. "It's just that your nights are longer and you aren't as warm."
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Five girls sat beside, and upon the branches of, the oldest apple tree in the orchard, its huge trunk making a fine seat and support; and whenever the May breeze blew, the pink blossoms tumbled down like snow, coming to rest in their hair and on their skirts. The afternoon sunlight dappled green and silver and gold through the leaves in the apple orchard.
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orchard
pretty-words
sunlight
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Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it. And
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Neil Gaiman |
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The daylight faded slowly: distances collapsed and the world turned indigo and the wind blew cold enough to burn the skin on your face.
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Neil Gaiman |
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He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes. "I"
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Neil Gaiman |
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Think of us as symbols--we're the dream that humanity creates to make sense of the shadows on the cave wall.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Family is who you survive with when you need to survive - even if you do not like them.
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Anyway, you know what they say about wolves," said her father. "If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over." "Who says that?" asked Lucy. "People. Everybody. You know," said her father, and he went back to practicing his tuba."
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wolves
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5b9451e
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I am still not talking to you," said Liza Hempstock's voice, proud as a peacock and pert as a sparrow. "Actually, you are. I mean, we're talking right now." "Only during this emergency. After that, not a word."
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The man Jack was tall. This man was taller. The man Jack wore dark clothes. This man's clothes were darker. People who noticed the man Jack when he was about his business-- and he did not like to be noticed-- were troubled, or made uncomfortable, or found themselves unaccountably scared. The man Jack looked up at the stranger, and it was the man Jack who was troubled.
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Neil Gaiman |
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He was standing on the pavement outside Nick Farthing's house, his face damp from the thick night mist.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Did it hurt?" asked Bod. "Letting the car hit you like that?" "Yes," said Silas."
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Neil Gaiman |
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The dead dun't disappoint you. They've had their life, done what they've done. We dun't change. The living, they always disappoint you, dun't they? You meet a boy who's all brave and noble, and he grows up to run away.
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