You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
NEIL GAIMANAnyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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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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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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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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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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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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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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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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