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 GAIMANFace your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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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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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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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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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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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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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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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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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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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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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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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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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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