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.
NEIL GAIMANLife is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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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’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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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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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Libraries are our friends.
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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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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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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 sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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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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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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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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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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