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Rather Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.
- The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call…
- I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number…
- For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
- I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s…
- I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
- When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable…
- If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.
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