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The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

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If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

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Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going anywhere. And neit...more

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Fox was here first, and his brother was the wolf. Fox said, people will live forever. If they die they will not die for long. Wolf said, no, people wi...more

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So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

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Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he ...more

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I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the tr...more

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Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

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I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

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It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I...more

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Everything that is,casts a shadow

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Are you happy?” asked Mr. Nancy, suddenly. He had been staring at Shadow for several hours. Whenever Shadow glanced over to his right, Mr. Nancy was l...more

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Are you happy?” asked Mr. Nancy, suddenly. He had been staring at Shadow for several hours. Whenever Shadow glanced over to his right, Mr. Nancy was l...more

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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.