You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’
And this means…?’
Well’, she said. ‘It’s interesting, isn’t it?


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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...
NEIL GAIMAN
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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