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.
NEIL GAIMANAll your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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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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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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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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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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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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