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Life is life, and it is infinitely better than the alternative, or so we presume, for nobody returns to dispute it. Such is my motto.

— 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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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