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There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out.

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Neil Gaiman
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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