Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMANFairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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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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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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Libraries are our friends.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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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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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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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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