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" The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished. "

Neil Gaiman

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People

Empathy

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Imagination

Muscle

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