And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
NEIL GAIMANI’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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Libraries are our friends.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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