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.
NEIL GAIMANI 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.”
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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 do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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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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In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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 am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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