Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
NEIL GAIMANTo absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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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Even nothing can last forever.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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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Libraries are our friends.
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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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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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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