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.
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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Libraries are our friends.
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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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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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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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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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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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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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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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