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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders
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jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
Life is a stream: an ongoing conversation of nature with itself, contradictory and opinionated and dangerous. And the stream is made up of births and deaths, of things that come into existence and pass away. But there is always life, and things feeding on life.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.”— Ben Okri
“Tell him that we have fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam.
Neil Gaiman • American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel
Terry Pratchett mounts a faultless defence of what he calls a ‘ghettoised’ genre: The first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning. They did not complain about the difficulties of the male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some Midwestern college cam
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