Top 500 Neil Gaiman Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “It is your differences that make you glorious.”

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202. “Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you’re a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.”

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203. “Dreams shape the world.”

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204. “I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too.”

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205. “Words save our lives, sometimes.”

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206. “It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

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207. “There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.”

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208. “Rule one of reading other people’s stories is that whenever you say ‘well that’s not convincing’ the author tells you that’s the bit that wasn’t made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.”

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209. “I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.”

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210. “Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.”

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211. “It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.”

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212. “In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything.”

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213. “The process of writing can be magical – there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across thin air, and it’s absolute and utter happiness. Mostly, it’s a process of putting one word after another.”

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214. “Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.”

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215. “When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn’t do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn’t do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.”

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216. “When you love something you just don’t want to stop talking about it.”

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217. “Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice Cream. I give you lots of kisses, And I give lots of hugs, But I never give you sandwiches With bugs In.”

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218. “I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921.”

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219. “When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.”

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220. “The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision.”

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221. “You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.”

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222. “All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I’m gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I’m gone.”

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223. “Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”

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224. “You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.”

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225. “The only water in the forest is the River.”

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226. “Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.”

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227. “Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn’t feel anything at all.”

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228. “I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.”

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229. “People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”

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230. “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”

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231. “He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.”

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232. “Even nothing cannot last forever.”

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233. “I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it.”

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234. “Walk any path in Destiny’s garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.”

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235. “Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.”

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236. “People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don’t have their own song.”

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237. “Leave no path untaken.”

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238. “It’s not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It’s the most important thing there is.”

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239. “I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.”

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240. “Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”

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241. “Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.”

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242. “Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while.”

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243. “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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244. “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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245. “So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.”

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246. “I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”

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247. “Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

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248. “If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.”

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249. “Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”

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250. “Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.”

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