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World Quotes by Neil Gaiman

135 World quotes by Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman treats fiction as a window onto countless imagined worlds. He notes that only utopian visions appear in commercial breaks, while stories let us see monsters, ghosts, angels, and dreams all at once. He also reflects on how the adult world can feel like a storm, powerful and secretive.

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You shine like a beacon in a dark world.

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The world is always ending for someone

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Dreams shape the world

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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

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Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

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It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

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The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

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It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.

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Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

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You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

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I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't…

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Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and…

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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than…

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Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?

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The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod's feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. Nothing was as clean-cut…

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The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

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Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.

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Oh, tweeting prolifically is the most easy thing in the world. Tweeting prolifically is like somebody saying, 'Boy, you're a really good…

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I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors…

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There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of…

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Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover…

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None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The…

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He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is…

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Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by…

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As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the…

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We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we…

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I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for…

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“She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the Marquis and his foolish crossbow, and the world. She…

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A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone…

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In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow…

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In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives…

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You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the…

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It seems to me that one of the most interesting things about God as a concept, if you decide to believe in…

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Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

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“I heard we see the world not as it is, but as we are.”

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

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Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

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Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

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“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily…

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“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”

So many things to see, people to do.

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written…

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

What do stars do? They shine.

“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”