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?
NEIL GAIMANThis 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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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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Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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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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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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