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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman
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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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I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.
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Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
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Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.
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Whatever's happening, she said, eventually, it can all be sorted out. She saw the expression on my face then, worried. Scared even. And she said, After pancakes.
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After a while it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it's actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.
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I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.
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I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
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You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.
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Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.
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That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.
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There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out.
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I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
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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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If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.
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I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I'm much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don't work, and applying them to new things that may work.
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Not gay, just never met the right woman.
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.
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I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.
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