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?
NEIL GAIMANWhat 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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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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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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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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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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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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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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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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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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