I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
NEIL GAIMANWe owe it to each other to tell stories.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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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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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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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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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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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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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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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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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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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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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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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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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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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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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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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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