Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
Neil GaimanI've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.
Neil GaimanSometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.
Neil GaimanI realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors in the world, a guy called Harry Stephen Keeler, a long dead American mystery writer. He was probably the greatest bad writer America ever produced.
Neil GaimanShadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.
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