Neil Gaiman Quotes
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We are small but we are many, we are many we are small; we were here before you rose, we will be here when you fall.
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Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused, and thought. 'I want everything.'
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My grandpa sells condoms to sailors, He punctures the tips with a pin, My grandma does back-street abortions, My god how the money rolls in.
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There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.
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Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor Karen Berger. She told me, 'There's no masturbation in the DC Universe.' To which my reaction was, 'Well that explains a lot about the DC Universe.'
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You're also finding out something as you read vitally important for making your way in the world. And it's this: The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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It is not the end. There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. You have failed.
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Unimpressed was his default state.
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He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.
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'You’ve a good heart,' she told him. 'Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go.' Then she shook her head. 'But mostly, it’s not.'
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I'm not sure it's entirely a good thing... I've always loved the gutter.
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In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the face and lips and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smiled and kept moving.
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She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.
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Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.
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Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?'
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'What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
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I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.
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Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!
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We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.
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At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.