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When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all the worlds like ours, only fractionally different. And we follow them with our eyes, ghost things, and the humans see nothing.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people.
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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.
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We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall
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The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.
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He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.
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He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass
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It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
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That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.
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Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.
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It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.
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I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.
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