People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANWhat power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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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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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.”
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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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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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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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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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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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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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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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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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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