Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMANAdults follow paths. Children explore.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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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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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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And 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.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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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