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“You are wrong. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one only, and that way is treacherous and hard, and if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.”

— Neil Gaiman Trigger Warning (2015)

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Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

January magazine interview (2002)

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

Jerusalem, thought Morrison, was like a deep pool, where time had settled too thickly.

Trigger Warning (2015)

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

The Graveyard Book (2008)

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

American Gods (2001)

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