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  1. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly:
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    will be an impulse that will inspire and ruin in equal measure.
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.
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  6. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    I saw her chewing gum, when I was thirteen, and I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn't work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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  10. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    I once made up a story as a wedding present for some friends. It was about a couple who were given a story as a wedding present. It was not a reassuring story. Having made up the story, I decided that they'd probably prefer a toaster, so I got them a toaster, and to this day have not written the story down.
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    Even in the pettiest, most unpromising material, she had discovered, you could find real treasures.
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  12. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    If not for Death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning.
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