Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
NEIL GAIMANBooks 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!
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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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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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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.
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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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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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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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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’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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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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