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?
NEIL GAIMANSometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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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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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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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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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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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 lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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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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What do stars do? They shine.
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