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Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?


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NEIL GAIMAN There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.
NEIL GAIMAN On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Co...
NEIL GAIMAN They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one...
NEIL GAIMAN The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be...
NEIL GAIMAN The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
NEIL GAIMAN You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.
'You have a very funny way of showing it,' ...
NEIL GAIMAN Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don'...
NEIL GAIMAN Oh- my twitchy witchy girl
I think you are so nice,
I give you bowls of porridge
And ...
NEIL GAIMAN I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari...
NEIL GAIMAN Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ...
NEIL GAIMAN Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.
NEIL GAIMAN Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to...
NEIL GAIMAN We are small but we are many
We are many we are small
We were here before you rose
We...
NEIL GAIMAN I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.
NEIL GAIMAN The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke...
NEIL GAIMAN It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,...
NEIL GAIMAN But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I s...
NEIL GAIMAN Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev...
NEIL GAIMAN I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
NEIL GAIMAN You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMAN