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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. (Neil Gaiman)
It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud. View quote
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Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you. View quote
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets. View quote
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Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. View quote
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You are an analog girl, living in a digital world. View quote
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What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul. View quote
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. View quote
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While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe. View quote
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You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies. View quote
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. (Neil Gaiman)
The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored. View quote
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You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter. View quote
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Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either. View quote
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He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called. View quote
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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. View quote
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He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear. View quote
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Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style. View quote
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The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. View quote
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I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book. View quote
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You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished. (Neil Gaiman)
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song. View quote
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The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen. View quote
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When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel. View quote
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Even nothing cannot last forever. View quote
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