Adults follow paths. Children explore.
NEIL GAIMANIdeas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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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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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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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 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.”
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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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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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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It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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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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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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