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!
NEIL GAIMANThings need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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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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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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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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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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
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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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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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Even nothing can last forever.
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