Neil Gaiman on enjoyment
Neil Gaiman91 quotes“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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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman 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.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman 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 GaimanNeil Gaiman That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman 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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