You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
NEIL GAIMANWhat do stars do? They shine.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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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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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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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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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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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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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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