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  1. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    That's an Anansi story. 'Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one.
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    You should have told him you were a cop too," said Fat Charlie. "He might have taken you more seriously." "I don't think it would have done any good," she said. "Anyone who calls you 'little lady' has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    Things. They came up. That what things do. They come up. I can't be expected to keep track of them all"
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    Most people do not notice other people.
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  6. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    Fat Charlie saw one thing with his eyes, and he saw something else with his mind, and in the gulf between the two things, madness waited.
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything."Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    Fat Charlie had had no real liking for the police, but until now, he had still managed to cling to a fundamental trust in the natural order of things, a conviction that there was some kind of power--a Victorian might have thought of it as Providence--that ensured that the guilty would be punished while the innocent would be set free. This faith had collapsed in the face of recent events and had been replaced by the suspicion that he would spend the rest of his life pleading his innocence to a variety of implacable judges and tormenters, many of whom would look like Daisy, and that he would in all probability wake up in cell six the next morning to find that he had been transformed into an enormous cockroach. He had definitely been transported to the kind of maleficent universe that transformed people into cockroaches.
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  10. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often need someone to walk around holding a string. They're sort of balloons, bobbing around.
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    Are you going to do it? Go on. You have to do it. I bet you won't be any crapper than I was."Fat Charlie shrugged, in a way that, he hoped, indicated that he contained within him depths of crap as yet unplumbed.
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  12. Neil Gaiman _ Anansi Boys

    They are simply numbers and cannot thus be right or wrong {...} What I trust that I am saying is that all numbers are by their nature correct. Well, except for Pi, of course. I can't be doing with Pi. Gives me a headache just thinking about it, going on and on and on and on and on....
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