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c8f410b
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Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses."
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Neil Gaiman |
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78094cb
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He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.
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humor
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Neil Gaiman |
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993807a
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His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.
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youth
gravity
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Neil Gaiman |
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be83b02
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When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.
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Neil Gaiman |
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e88552c
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Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be all..
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humor
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Neil Gaiman |
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d0b63cd
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A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
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story
metamorphosis
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Neil Gaiman |
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d127fdb
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Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.
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Neil Gaiman |
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59f2b2b
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
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truth-telling
protest
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Neil Gaiman |
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4177a63
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Beware of Doors.
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Neil Gaiman |
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53ff3ad
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I think I'll dismember the world and then I'll dance in the wreckage.
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Neil Gaiman |
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fcb95b3
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It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
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Neil Gaiman |
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9cf2dc6
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They d..
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love-quotes
graphic-novel
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Neil Gaiman |
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5b68059
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Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.
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Neil Gaiman |
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b890200
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I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do.
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Neil Gaiman |
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4c9f74e
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Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on. You will not even die in battle. No warrior will taste your blood. No one alive will take your life. You will die a soft, poor death. You will die with a kiss on your lips and a lie in your heart."
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Neil Gaiman |
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ad7b158
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Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.
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spells
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Neil Gaiman |
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00d1fd4
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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.
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Neil Gaiman |
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09daced
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If you sit down and think about it , you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people inquisitive, and then put some forbidden fruit where they can see it with a big neon finger flashing on and off saying 'THIS IS IT!'? ... I mean, why do that if you really don't them to eat it, eh? I mean, maybe you just want to see how it all turns out. Maybe it's all part of a great big ineffable plan. All of it. You, me, him, everything...
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fantasy
religion
humor
life
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Neil Gaiman |
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8bf8072
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I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?
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religion
life
sunsets
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Neil Gaiman |
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8a4009a
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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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timidity
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Neil Gaiman |
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72c8bbd
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We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.
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Neil Gaiman |
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a7d63f7
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The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.
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Neil Gaiman |
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f463592
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Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.
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Neil Gaiman |
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887d7a1
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I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not."
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Neil Gaiman |
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4e39f76
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You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.
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Neil Gaiman |
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5b660d3
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Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice Cream. I give you lots of kisses, And I give lots of hugs, But I never give you sandwiches With bugs In.
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Neil Gaiman |
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8a4ebc2
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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. And while we're on the subject, I'd like to say a few words about escapism. I hear the term bandi..
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reading
fiction
fantasy
neil-gaiman
escapism
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Neil Gaiman |
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87d4579
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It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.
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too-late
sorry
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Neil Gaiman |
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0a181f7
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They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.
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kiss
love
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Neil Gaiman |
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a2e6564
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There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always h..
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Neil Gaiman |
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f236ebd
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Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.
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fear
nowhere
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Neil Gaiman |
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41c8084
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Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
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names
inspirational
cats
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Neil Gaiman |
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ce95288
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I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam severely. "Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive."
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Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman |
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d6da4be
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The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly.
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Neil Gaiman |
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814a2d2
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Idris: Are all people like this?
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humanity
human-greatness
tardis
the-doctor-s-wife
vastness
potential
consciousness
doctor-who
soul
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Neil Gaiman |
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e8ea11e
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CORALINE'S STORY THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.
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dance
sossajes
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Neil Gaiman |
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008afed
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Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.
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lucifer
hell
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Neil Gaiman |
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b42a012
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So many things to see, people to do.
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paraphrased
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Neil Gaiman |
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accad73
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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.
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story
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Neil Gaiman |
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e197cdc
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Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.
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Neil Gaiman |
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4a40c4f
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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content."
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endings
happy-endings
stories
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Neil Gaiman |
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ddd0c51
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I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.
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Neil Gaiman |
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6e8ae9c
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He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.
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Neil Gaiman |
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0c6b1c3
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He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.
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Neil Gaiman |