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bfadd82
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You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.
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digital
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Neil Gaiman |
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3d2d357
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Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.
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Neil Gaiman |
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6d4ac06
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Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.
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Neil Gaiman |
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I don't think that I've been in love as such Although I liked a few folk pretty well Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch for brave men died and empires rose and fell For love, girls follow boys to foreign lands and men have followed women into hell In plays and poems someone understands there's something makes us more than blood and bone and more than biological demands For me love's like the wind, unseen, unknown I see the trees a..
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poem
poetry
love
sonnet
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Neil Gaiman |
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4eb59b6
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Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
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good
terry-pratchett
good-omens
neil-gaiman
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Neil Gaiman |
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bbfb48f
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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle.
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Neil Gaiman |
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eb1a8c8
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This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is." "What?" "The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are."
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Neil Gaiman |
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7ddd16f
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The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind."
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Neil Gaiman |
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477ae9b
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It begins, as most things begin, with a song.
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Neil Gaiman |
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bf3df8f
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Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island
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Neil Gaiman |
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0e320b7
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Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true. She lived through the war. In 1959 she came to America. She now lives in a condo in Miami, a tiny French woman with white hair, with a daughter and a grand-daughter. She keeps herself to herself and smiles rarely, as if the weight of memory keeps her from finding joy. Or that's a lie. Actually the Gestapo picked her up during a border crossing in 1943, and they left her i..
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Neil Gaiman |
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So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
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inspirational
neil-gaiman
mistakes
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Neil Gaiman |
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68ce8c9
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Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.
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Neil Gaiman |
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9bf7d37
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She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
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humorous
stories
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Neil Gaiman |
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11b2e56
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I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness. The ones who know how to behave, and what their neighbors need to do to be on the side of the good.
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Neil Gaiman |
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9f94843
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She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?"
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humor
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Neil Gaiman |
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134aa4a
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I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.
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Neil Gaiman |
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ceff1d9
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While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.
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Neil Gaiman |
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fff9b26
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Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow. "Fuck You," said the Raven."
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the-raven
raven
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Neil Gaiman |
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dd4d0c3
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No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You ma..
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tragedy
life
insulation
originality
islands
isolation
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Neil Gaiman |
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9989e17
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Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious.
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Neil Gaiman |
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51de88d
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Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes...
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Neil Gaiman |
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d75d189
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Laura looked up at him with dead blue eyes. I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be alive. I want to feel my heart pumping in my chest again. I want to feel blood moving through me -- hot, and salty, and real. It's weird, you don't think you can feel it, the blood, but believe me, when it stops flowing, you'll know." She rubbed her eyes, smudging her face with red from the mess on her hands. Look, it's..
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Neil Gaiman |
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05c2752
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It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
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simile
paraphrased
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Neil Gaiman |
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b159b51
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What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
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irony
ignorance
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Neil Gaiman |
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82d6c2a
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And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.
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Neil Gaiman |
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31b3380
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And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.' 'They kill themselves, you mean?' said Bod. [...] 'Indeed.' '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. Whereve..
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Neil Gaiman |
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ef64ce3
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Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki.
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thor
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Neil Gaiman |
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e03d2c4
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Can I help you?" said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humor."
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Neil Gaiman |
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ca83d45
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Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.
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apocatastasis
pronounciation
re-establishment
renovation
restoration
title
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Neil Gaiman |
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ff4bc93
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Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.
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neil gaiman |
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8254a52
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Reading is important.
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libraries
reading
newbery-medal-acceptance-speech
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Neil Gaiman |
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a679a8c
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On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.
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humor
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Neil Gaiman |
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0e36c81
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Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.
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Neil Gaiman |
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c2cf2cd
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They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.
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Neil Gaiman |
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46f10b4
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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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03de6c7
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We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table,..
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three
sixteen
part
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Neil Gaiman |
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a3f03b7
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What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope."
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Neil Gaiman |
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a625770
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Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.
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latin
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Neil Gaiman |
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3938819
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Mind the gap!
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Neil Gaiman |
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878f5e9
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Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.
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Neil Gaiman |
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ce4972e
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The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.
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Neil Gaiman |
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5fe2c1c
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There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud."
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Neil Gaiman |
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35ff54e
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He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.
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Neil Gaiman |