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Neil Gaiman Inspirational Quotes (673)

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Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.
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Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.
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I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions.
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Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.
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In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.
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The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.
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Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.
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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 fooling a soul.
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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
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For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
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If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each other over, but they're incredibly real.
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Leave no path untaken.
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I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?
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He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.
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There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.
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I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.
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As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is composed of theatres, or whatever... For me, the world is simply composed of stories, when I look, that's what I see.
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I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
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Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.
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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle.
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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
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Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
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