“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

—  Neil Gaiman , book American Gods

Source: American Gods (2001), Ch. 3
Context: Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

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