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" I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area. "
Neil Gaiman
Library
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Children
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" I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. "
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