Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content t… - Neil Gaiman

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Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

Neil Gaiman

The Ocean at the End of the Lane · June 18, 2013 Verified in 2 sources · 1 more available Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Neil Richard Gaiman (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, and comics.

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Birth Name: Neil Richard Gaiman

Alternative Names: Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman • Gaiman, Neil Richard MacKinnon • N. Gaiman • N. R. Gaiman

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