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Book: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
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  1. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    I believe that ideas do not have to be correct to exist. I
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it. And
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    I believe that you have the absolute right to think things that I find offensive, stupid, preposterous or dangerous, and that you have the right to speak, write, or distribute these things, and that I do not have the right to kill you, maim you, hurt you, or take away your liberty or property because I find your ideas threatening or insulting or downright disgusting. You probably think some of my ideas are pretty vile too. I
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    Books are really places, make no mistake about that.
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  6. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    I would not have understood that the best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming, nor that the majesty and the magic of belief and dreams could be a vital part of life and of writing.
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    I believe I have the right to think and say the wrong things. I believe your remedy for that should be to argue with me or to ignore me, and that I should have the same remedy for the wrong things that I believe you think.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    Yes, I was scared of the Daleks and the Zarbi and the rest, but I was taking other, stranger, more important lessons away from my Saturday tea time serial. For a start, I became infected by the idea that there are an infinite number of worlds only a foot step away. And another part of the meme was this- some things are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside. And perhaps some people are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside as well. And that was only the start of it.
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  10. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    But time heals. Or at least it forms scabs.
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    There's a brotherhood of people who read and who care about books.
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  12. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
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