Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
NEIL GAIMANThere are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Libraries are our friends.
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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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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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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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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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