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The view changes from where you are standing.
Words can wound, and wounds can heal.
All of these things are true.


Neil Gaiman

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bette...
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angry,
betrayed,
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By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
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No gun.
No bullets.
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o...
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...

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NEIL GAIMAN We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ...
NEIL GAIMAN October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...
NEIL GAIMAN This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...
NEIL GAIMAN I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrif...
NEIL GAIMAN We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bea...
NEIL GAIMAN The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They a...
NEIL GAIMAN We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMAN Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves i...
NEIL GAIMAN A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...
NEIL GAIMAN Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
NEIL GAIMAN I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
NEIL GAIMAN Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...
NEIL GAIMAN Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
NEIL GAIMAN I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...
NEIL GAIMAN Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
NEIL GAIMAN Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
NEIL GAIMAN Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t...
NEIL GAIMAN Books were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe...
NEIL GAIMAN As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
NEIL GAIMAN Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy...
NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, ...
NEIL GAIMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...
NEIL GAIMAN You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...
NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a...
NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ...
NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th...
NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi...
NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe...
NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ...
NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ...
NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge...
NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
NEIL GAIMAN