I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMANAnd did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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Libraries are our friends.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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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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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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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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