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 GAIMANI liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
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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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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.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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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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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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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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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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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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