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Neil Gaiman
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.
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If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
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Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future.
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You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people who worshiped them were here—because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.
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Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
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You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.
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I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.
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And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
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I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be there and waiting for you if you go and look for it. Decide the universe is, say, run by secret enormous teddy bears, and I can guarantee you'll immediately start running across evidence that this is true.
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If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.
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They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?
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Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!
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All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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I remembered something somebody had once said to me. It's okay. Everyday is freshly ground.
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.
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So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.
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What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,' it said. 'No?' said Coraline. 'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
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If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.
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Ocean is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.
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