One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this. β¨ Neil Gaiman (2009). Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders, p.11, Harper Collins
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- I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his ment β¦ βΆ
- This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone.
- The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
- The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. β¨ The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, (Sandman #6: 24 Hours), January 1989 - November 2015.
- Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.
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