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.
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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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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?
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Libraries are our friends.
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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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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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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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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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