Neil Gaiman quote: "It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vis...
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When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and...
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When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which mean...
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There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradis...
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you c...
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure wh...
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Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break...
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all ...
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Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
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I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.
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I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and ca...
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Idris: Are all people like this?
The Doctor: Like what?
Idris: So much bigger on the insid...
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Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon ...
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I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do,...
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I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It w...
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Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’

Bod thought for a mo...
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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We...we could be friends.'

We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing Afric...
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What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,'...
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There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they we...
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.
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CORALINE'S STORY
THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND D...
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Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I...
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at t...
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25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming swo...
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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...
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People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are re...
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i...
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The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore....
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and...
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Oh, he'll help us whether he wants to or not. I told the truth. I would not kill him. The death-curs...
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I am the mother of Odin's stallion, Sleipnir. I am the father of Fenrir Sun-Eater, and of Hel Half-R...
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He estado haciendo una lista de las cosas que no te enseñan en la escuela. Ellos no te enseñan có...
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I'll tell you a secret. A raven created the world. When Noah sent him out to find land, he couldn't ...
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It must be a real betrayal, when your body turns against you.

I wonder if she likes flow...
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ...
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Facets, Matthew. Each facet catches the light in its own way. It glints and sparkles and flashes uni...
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Love takes hostages.
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We are all improved by the glow of memory.
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As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l...
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MORPHEUS: I did not intend to hurt you,

THESSALY: And what if you did not? Intent and out...
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Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me...
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There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the...
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I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.
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Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending ...
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ...
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I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a l...
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All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other mat...
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We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
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We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the conseque...
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You don't have to stay anywhere forever.
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Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life......
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i...
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She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you k...
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she...
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We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things...
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It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire me...
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You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds."
"What, a ph...
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more c...
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There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place...
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In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glitt...
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Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?
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Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragi...
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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w...
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There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u...
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There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
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For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of...
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She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap...
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The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said...
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For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure ...
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It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't ...
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There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.
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On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Co...
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They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one...
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The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be...
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The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
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You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.
'You have a very funny way of showing it,' ...
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Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don'...
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Oh- my twitchy witchy girl
I think you are so nice,
I give you bowls of porridge
And ...
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I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari...
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Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ...
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Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.
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Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to...
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We are small but we are many
We are many we are small
We were here before you rose
We...
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I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke...
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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,...
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I s...
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Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
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I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev...
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I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody...
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You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it�...
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I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relie...
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Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa...
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Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�...
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You're a poem?' I repeated.

She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ...
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Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.

Fac...
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
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I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m...
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
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God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which migh...
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchc...
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with se...
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The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that t...
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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning...
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My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ...
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A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it....
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You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak...
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into ...
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Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obs...
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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only...
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Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doe...
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endur...
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you ar...
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest a...
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CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.

MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, hors...
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Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.
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Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caug...
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I think all - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the ...
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I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship ...
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Even nothing cannot last forever.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doi...
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine boo...
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And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only ...
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And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colo...
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You shouldn't trust the storyteller; only trust the story.
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Value's in what people think. Not in what's real. Value's in dreams, boy.
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We write our names in the sand, and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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Bodies are strange. Some people have real problems with the stuff that goes on inside them. You find...
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Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees tha...
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If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?
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Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of ...
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I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.
Yeah, everybody wonders. ...
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It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.
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You know what happens when you dream of falling? Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kil...
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Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
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Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? ...
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Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.
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It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do...
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You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And...
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There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized...
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There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl...
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We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ...
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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...
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I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrif...
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We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bea...
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The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They a...
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves i...
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A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...
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Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
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I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
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I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...
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Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
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Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
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Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t...
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe...
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As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
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Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
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I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy...
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, ...
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One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
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The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
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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 ...
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You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a...
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When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
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Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ...
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As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th...
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I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi...
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Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
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Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
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Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe...
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I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ...
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What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
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Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ...
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The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge...
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Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
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This little piggy went to Hades
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy ate raw an...
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

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