Libraries are our friends.
NEIL GAIMANWe owe it to each other to tell stories.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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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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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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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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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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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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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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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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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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 I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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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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To 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.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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