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Neil Gaiman Quotes
«Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
about turn, After life, all, All days, All For Love, All in one, and or, and then, any, anymore, Any Day Now, apart, armor, ask, ask for, ask for it, ask in, be, been, Be Love, build, building up, build in, build up, by heart, by the day, can, canned, Canning, chest, chests, come apart, come to life, come to mind, crying, cry out for, darkness, Day, day in and day out, day in day out, defenses, Did, different, done up, do work, dumb, dumber, dumbest, D Day, eaten up, eats, eat in, eat into, eat on, eat out, Eat This, ever, For, for each one, for each person, For No One, Friends, from, get, gets, Getting There, Get A Life, Get Real, give, given any, give or take, give out, glass, glass in, hate, have, have in mind, Have You, heart, heart and soul, heart at, He Who Gets, horrible, hostage, hostages, hurt, hurts, imagination, inside, insides, into, Into My Heart, in love, in no way, in person, In the, in the mind, ITS, it Ate, I made it, just, just do it, just in, Just me, just now, just then, kiss, leaves, leave out, left most, Left Turn, life, like, love, makes, maybe, means, mean life, mess, messes, messing, mind, minding, no., no, noes, not, nothing, nothings, No 1, No Way Out, of each person, of her own, of one mind, of the same mind, one, one after another, One and one, one day, One on One, One Piece, one to one, on her own, on leave, On This Day, opens, other, other ways, out, outs, out of nothing, out of work, own, pain, paining, person, Person to person, phrase, phrased, phrasing, piece, Piece By Piece, piece of work, real, Real Me, real person, ripping, rip out, rip up, should, simple, simple A, smile, someone, Someone Like You, something, Something Stupid, soul, splinter, splintered, splintering, splinters, stupid, stupider, stupidest, stupid person, suit, suit of armor, taken over, takes, take heart, take leave, take pains, take turns, taking over, that, that means nothing, The, Them, then, these, they, the darkness, The Loved One, The One and Only, The Simple Life, the whole way, This Is Your Life, turned on, turns, vulnerable, wanders, way, whole, wholes, working, workings, working day, work day, work over, work through, work up
«I think the First Amendment is probably the most important thing that you have in this country. And I'm always horrified at the cavalier way that you (Americans) treat it.»
«I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Learning,
School
| Keywords:
any longer, away, die away, Do or Die, dying, famous, Famous Or, going, going away, go a long way, How to, knowing, list, listed, Lists of, List of, longer, Long Walk, making, my list, My school, poor, rich, school, schooled, schooling, somebody, Somebody to Love, Someone else, Teach, the list, walk, walk away, worth
«Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
fly, kills, The Fall, wake, wake up
«It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.»
«God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
God,
Universe
| Keywords:
compared, complex, Dark Room, devising, dice, ineffable, my version, obscure, own version, perspective, pitch-dark, pitch, pitches, pitch in, pitch into, players, plays, poker, pokers, poker game, Poker Player, The Dark Room, version, versions
«He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
all at once, cowards, leap, leap out, noticed, occur, packs, run-in, singly
«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.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
bone, chess, firstly, hourglass, monk, scythe, second person, skeletal, tall, The Hourglass, third person, white horse
«It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
prerogative, prerogatives, truths, utter
