“I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.”

— Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman's Twitter stream http://twitter.com/neilhimself, Tweet ID # 1178514410, (5 February 2009) http://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1178514410

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