Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, o… - Neil Gaiman

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Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.

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About Neil Gaiman

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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You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

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