"I finally made friends with my father when……" — Neil Gaiman
"I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with."
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1,015 Quotes by Neil Gaiman
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Fear is contagious. You can catch it.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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