People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANWhat do stars do? They shine.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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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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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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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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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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