I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
NEIL GAIMANStories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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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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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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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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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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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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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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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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