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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“The joy's gone out of me like the pee from a small boy in a swimming pool on a hot day.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods