Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
NEIL GAIMANI can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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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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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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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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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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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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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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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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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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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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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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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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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