We owe it to each other to tell stories.
NEIL GAIMANAdventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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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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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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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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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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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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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.
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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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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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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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 have to stay anywhere forever.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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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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