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I'm bored, she said. Learn how to tap-dance, he suggested, without turning around.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.
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I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.
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Let's start a new tomorrow, today.
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