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 GAIMANI lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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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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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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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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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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She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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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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