I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
NEIL GAIMANIt’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Libraries are our friends.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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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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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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