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Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au

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~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning,...more

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His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever bee...more

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That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you e...more

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It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were ther...more

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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget ...more

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Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

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He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

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And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

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It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering i...more

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I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they alw...more

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I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

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Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.