Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 25

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• Repeat after me, there are the living and the dead, there are day-folk and night-folk, there are ghouls and mist-walkers, there are high hunters and the Hounds of God. Also, there are solitary types." "What are you?" asked Bod. "I," she said sternly, "am Miss Lupescu." "And what is Silas?" She hesitated. Then she said, "He is a solitary type.

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  Night, Ghouls, Missing

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• Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed.

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  Rays, Mark, Bradbury

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• The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

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  Real, Long, Stories

  "The Sandman" by Neil Gaiman, (Sandman #6: "24 Hours"), January 1989 - November 2015.

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• I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.

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  Horse, Memories, Father

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

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  Brother, Book, Garden

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1992 - 1993.

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• Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.

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  Finals, Way, Sometimes

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• There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast.

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  Believe, Impossible Things, Hysteria

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• Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

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  Hurt, Lying, Details

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Three: 5 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

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  Liars, Believe, Thinking

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• We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?“ “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many musicians do you think your side have got, eh? First grade, I mean." Aziraphale looked taken aback. "Well, I should think-" he began. "Two," said Crowley. "Elgar and Liszt. That's all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?

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  Taken, Mean, Winning

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

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  Views, Ideas, Mourning

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• Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.

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  People, Listening, Littles

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• What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

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  Ignorance, Men, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

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  Thinking, Debt, Moral

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

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  Children, Book, Reading

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.21, HarperCollins

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• When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

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  Art, Should, When Things Get Tough

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• Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

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  Graduation, Mistake, Graduates

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

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  Smile, Mistake, Dancing

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.190, A&C Black

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• She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling.

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  Might, Worried, Found

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.128, A&C Black

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• I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people?

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  People, Today, Doe

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• Time is fluid here', said the Demon.

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  Demon, Fluid, Said

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Three: 5 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

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  Eye, Blow, Moon

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death.

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  Dream, Fool, Young

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

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  Gun, Fire, Machines

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• I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and the end eventually. I wake up. The terrible dreams are the good dreams. In my terrible dreams, everything is fine. I am still with the company. I still look like me. None of the last five years ever happened. Sometimes I'm married. Once I even had kids. I even knew their names. Everything's wonderful and normal and fine. And then I wake up, and I'm still me. And I'm still here. And that is truly terrible.

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  Dream, Kids, Years

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