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As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
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Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.
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Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.
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Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!
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Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.
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What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.
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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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We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.
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Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
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