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 GAIMANBeing 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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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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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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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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