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There's none so blind as those who will not listen. (Neil Gaiman)
People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. View quote
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She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true. View quote
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Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. View quote
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It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems. View quote
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Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy. View quote
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He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know. View quote
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The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys. View quote
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There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway. View quote
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Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? View quote
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Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing. (Neil Gaiman)
Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence. View quote
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I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write. View quote
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. View quote
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It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe. View quote
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Everything that is,casts a shadow. View quote
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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, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write. View quote
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There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't. View quote
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Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead. View quote
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You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary. View quote
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What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything. (Neil Gaiman)
For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse. View quote
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And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him. View quote
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The moonlight was enough. It would do. View quote
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You shine like a beacon in a dark world. View quote
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