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51 Men quotes by Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman describes a world where only brief, magical scenes appear on TV, like a tiny utopia. He notes that talking is free, but a wise person saves his words for important moments. He also points out how chasing pleasure can hide deeper emptiness, and he paints a vivid picture of a kiss that feels both normal and strange.

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You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

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Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

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Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

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There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

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Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

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The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

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You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

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I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep…

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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,…

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That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty…

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Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

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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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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

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Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers.…

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You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got…

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The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd…

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Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about…

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We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,…

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Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall…

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If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my…

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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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She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never…

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The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and…

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Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my…

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There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is…

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There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped…

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There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist…

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To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see…

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I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place…

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Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap.…

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I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man…

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People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women…

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Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.

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In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an…

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Soon,” said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star…

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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…

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He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away,…

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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in…

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Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs…

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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”