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People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out.
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Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?
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It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.
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I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
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A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.
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I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.
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I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.
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I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.
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You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?
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This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.
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As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
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Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.
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I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.
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He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
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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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