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If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.
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If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.
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In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.
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Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?
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Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.
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You know that I love you. And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.
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Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
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Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.
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Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.
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That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.
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I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.
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I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.
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All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone.
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So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
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People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.
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You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.
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