Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
NEIL GAIMANPicking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Even nothing can last forever.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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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.
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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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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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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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Libraries are our friends.
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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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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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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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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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