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The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.
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Neil Gaiman |
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People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.
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There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
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opening-lines
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If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you'd be wrong. He'd be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.
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You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?"
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Neil Gaiman |
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Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.
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killing
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I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
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young
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There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.
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Neil Gaiman |
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It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
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magic
life
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That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.
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youth
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Neil Gaiman |
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Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?
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Neil Gaiman |
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What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.
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Neil Gaiman |
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You got a lifetime. No more. No less.
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graphic-novels
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Neil Gaiman |
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Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
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success
near-hits
near-misses
nearly
failure
luck
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Neil Gaiman |
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And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!"
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Neil Gaiman |
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You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon..
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He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur."
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Neil Gaiman |
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I sat in the dark and thought: There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.
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endless
ending
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Neil Gaiman |
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Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.
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fiction
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Neil Gaiman |
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Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.
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sex
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Neil Gaiman |
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I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.
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Neil Gaiman |
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It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.
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Neil Gaiman |
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People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
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storytelling
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Neil Gaiman |
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Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?" Dream: "There isn't one." Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was."
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love
sandman
gaiman
poignant
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Neil Gaiman |
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The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
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live
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Neil Gaiman |
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You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.
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Neil Gaiman |
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I am hope.
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Neil Gaiman |
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There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Goodbyes are overrated.
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Neil Gaiman |
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There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of..
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humor
terror
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Neil Gaiman |
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I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.
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Neil Gaiman |
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And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to."
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Neil Gaiman |
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Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A.
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Neil Gaiman |
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It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.
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Neil Gaiman |
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You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.
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death
sandman
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Neil Gaiman |
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Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?
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Neil Gaiman |
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We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.
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Neil Gaiman |
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The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're-- pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true-- ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.
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Neil Gaiman |
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There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.
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