Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
NEIL GAIMANI lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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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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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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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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What do stars do? They shine.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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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Books 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!
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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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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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