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c8e01af
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Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.
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Neil Gaiman |
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1c20d78
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This is crazy', said Shadow. Like the rest of your life is sane? Give me a fucking break.
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Neil Gaiman |
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c7055f5
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Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad...
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Neil Gaiman |
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37df868
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I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.
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Neil Gaiman |
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So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your foolishness?' 'Love,' he explained. She looked at him with eyes the blue of the sky. 'I hope you choke on it,' she said, flatly.
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tristan
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Neil Gaiman |
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2865ea8
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Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
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death
happiness
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Neil Gaiman |
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3050ca6
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Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
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stories
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Neil Gaiman |
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d841f8a
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Remember your name. Do not lose hope--what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.
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Neil Gaiman |
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Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.
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Neil Gaiman |
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fcf32ef
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I don't ever remember being afraid of "oldness". There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull all-nighters and keep working and working well; and being smiled at by girls I didn't know who thought I was cute; and I wish I had the eyesight I had even five years ago... but that stuff feels pretty trivial. I'm happier than I've been at any time in my life these days. I have a wonderful wife whom I adore, watched t..
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inspirational
growing-older
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Neil Gaiman |
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80c13af
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The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn't want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
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Neil Gaiman |
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558c2cf
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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.
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Neil Gaiman |
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611a834
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Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?
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magic
faith
fairies
stories
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Neil Gaiman |
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f7c72c1
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I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
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Neil Gaiman |
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8f458d5
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She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.
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Neil Gaiman |
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9f51b80
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I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.
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Neil Gaiman |
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f6811f7
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The Norse myths are the myths of a chilly place, with long, long winter nights and endless summer days, myths of a people who did not entirely trust or even like their gods, although they respected and feared them.
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Neil Gaiman |
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bb6b246
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Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you've ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.
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Neil Gaiman |
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cb7e8bd
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Nobody will ever hurt her. She'll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.
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Neil Gaiman |
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dc303a7
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Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong question." Silas raised an eyebrow. "How so?" "Well," said Bod. "If I go outside in the world, the question isn't who will keep me safe from him?" "No?" "No. It's who will keep him safe from me?"
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the-graveyard-book
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Neil Gaiman |
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7bf28db
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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 darkness.
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Neil Gaiman |
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820e0e8
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They might be dirty, and cheap, and their food might taste like shit, but at least they didn't speak in cliches
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Neil Gaiman |
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856c06e
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The World "You know the saddest thing," she said. "The saddest thing is that we're you." I said nothing. "In your fantasies," she said, "my people are just like you. Only better. We don't die or age or suffer from pain or cold or thirst. We're snappier dressers. We possess the wisdom of the ages. And if we crave blood, well, it is no more than the way you people crave food or affection or sunlight - and besides, it gets us out of the house..
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Neil Gaiman |
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9c9751c
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Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that , and it was changing him.
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Neil Gaiman |
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63cb3ef
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She patted him on the arm. "You're fucked up, Mister. But you're cool." "I believe that's what they call the human condition," said Shadow."
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Neil Gaiman |
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d5751c7
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I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live.
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Neil Gaiman |
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c48eaf2
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Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you're in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.
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Neil Gaiman |
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e4b6863
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M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...
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words
magic
writing
neil-gaiman
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Neil Gaiman |
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e502a42
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I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.
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Neil Gaiman |
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75ff748
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How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final tim..
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Neil Gaiman |
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381e793
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If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.
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Neil Gaiman |
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b899244
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A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud."
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Neil Gaiman |
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8fe6d21
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For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was. It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the bed we wake up in in the morning and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.
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Neil Gaiman |
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41377dc
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The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.
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Neil Gaiman |
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a556caa
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When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories up. They put my stuff up on the web. I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn't tell them to take it down, you would lose your copyright, which actually, is simply not true. And I also got very grumpy because I felt like they were pirating my stuff, that it was bad..
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piracy
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Neil Gaiman |
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5c5e924
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The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.
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hob-gadling
sandman
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Neil Gaiman |
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ead802b
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I believe that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
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legal-system
reasonable-doubt
justice-system
death-penalty
justice
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Neil Gaiman |
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38a93a5
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Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.
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Neil Gaiman |
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63c1543
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Whither thou goest...
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Neil Gaiman |
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1586efd
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For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home. "How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink. "Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'..
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Neil Gaiman |
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d29cf87
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If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.
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Neil Gaiman |
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a558aa3
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There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.
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world
pretty-words
sky
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Neil Gaiman |
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7f04704
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I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.
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buried
finding
underground
searching
ocean
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Neil Gaiman |
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bfecb8a
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I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.
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the-star
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Neil Gaiman |