A dark-blue flag stands on a rocky mound beside a round brass shield beneath storm clouds.

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Neil Gaiman

Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do.

— Address to the University of the Arts Class of 2012

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The passage lists ways life can go wrong and begins to introduce a response when things become tough. That response is missing from the retained excerpt, so no advice is added.

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