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.
NEIL GAIMANPeople want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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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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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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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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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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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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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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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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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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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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