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The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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Neil Richard Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman
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Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.
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