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We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. (Neil Gaiman)
Also, I've already won all the awards. View quote
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As a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them. View quote
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I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do. View quote
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. View quote
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All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them. View quote
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There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply. View quote
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If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. View quote
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You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it. View quote
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I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. View quote
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The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different. (Neil Gaiman)
"So computers are tools of the devil?" thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn't him. View quote
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What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven? View quote
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. View quote
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I don't think that I've been in love as such, although I liked a few folk pretty well. Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch, for brave men died and empires rose and fell. For love, girls follow boys to foreign lands, and men have followed women into hell. In plays and poems someone understands, there's something makes us more than blood and bone. And more than biological demands for me love's like the wind unseen, unknown. I see the trees are bending where it's been. I know that it leaves wreckage where it's blown. I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means don't leave me here alone... View quote
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Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future. View quote
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end. View quote
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I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. View quote
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And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see. View quote
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. View quote
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Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn't qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things. On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall, while a musical entertainment happened, and I started talking to a very nice, polite, elderly gentleman about several things, including our shared first name. And then he pointed to the hall of people, and said words to the effect of, "I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck am I doing here? They've made amazing things. I just went where I was sent." And I said, "Yes. But you were the first man on the moon. I think that counts for something." (Neil Gaiman)
It can't make things any worse. View quote
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My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him. View quote
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In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand. View quote
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I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader. View quote
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