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.
NEIL GAIMANEven nothing can last forever.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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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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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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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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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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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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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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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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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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Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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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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