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I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold — Neil Gaiman

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. — Neil Gaiman

Things like that, they're too vicious to die. — Neil Gaiman

How old are you, really?" I asked. "Eleven." I thought for a bit. Then I asked, "How long have you been eleven for? — Neil Gaiman

I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone, — Neil Gaiman

Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped. — Neil Gaiman

We save our lives in such unlikely ways. — Neil Gaiman

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before. — Neil Gaiman

If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each others' tragedies. — Neil Gaiman

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to. — Neil Gaiman

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.' There — Neil Gaiman

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem? — Neil Gaiman

The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp. — Neil Gaiman

Still, every little bit helps, as the old woman said when she pissed in the sea. — Neil Gaiman

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many. — Neil Gaiman

You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less. — Neil Gaiman

He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes. — Neil Gaiman

There is no end to the cruelty of men threatened by strong women." - Mr. Nancy — Neil Gaiman

The coal shed smelled of damp and blackness and of old, crushed forests. — Neil Gaiman

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman

We authors, who trade in fictions for a living, are a continuum of all that we have seen and heard, and most importantly, all that we have read. — Neil Gaiman

Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself. — Neil Gaiman

Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment. — Neil Gaiman

THE LITTLE MAN HURRIED into the Fountain and ordered a very large whisky. "Because," he announced to the pub in general, "I deserve it. — Neil Gaiman

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. — Neil Gaiman

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses. — Neil Gaiman

Beware of Doors. — Neil Gaiman

Mister whoever-the-fuck you are," said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, "there isn't enough money in the world. — Neil Gaiman

He is holding a book.
Inside the book is the Universe. — Neil Gaiman

(Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life. Reader, Can You Say Lykewise?). — Neil Gaiman

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art. — Neil Gaiman

He made love to Porcupine Woman and got his dick shot through with more needles than a pincushion. He'd argue with rocks and the rocks would win. — Neil Gaiman

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter. — Neil Gaiman

I will not be my father's dog. — Neil Gaiman

I may be dead but I'm a dead witch. And we don't forget. — Neil Gaiman

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment. — Neil Gaiman

What good is a vocabulary that isn't used? — Neil Gaiman

Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He — Neil Gaiman

There's no Hell to spite the sinners. There's no Heaven for the blessed. God is not what you imagine. — Neil Gaiman

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. — Neil Gaiman

Guy Fawkes Night, — Neil Gaiman

She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. — Neil Gaiman

There are sneaking,
creeping, crumpling
noises coming from
inside the walls. — Neil Gaiman

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? — Neil Gaiman

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style. — Neil Gaiman

She was unconscious in a comma."

"You mean a coma."

"Do I? — Neil Gaiman

Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. — Neil Gaiman

If you are to survive, you must believe. — Neil Gaiman

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words. — Neil Gaiman

A graveyard is not normally a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy, — Neil Gaiman

They lived in their flat with a number of aging Highland terriers who had names like Hamish and Andrew and Jock. — Neil Gaiman

...There is no such thing as grown ups... — Neil Gaiman

I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three. — Neil Gaiman

I did not want to die at all. Understand that. But I could not let everything be destroyed, when I had it in my power to stop the destruction. — Neil Gaiman

You got a lifetime. No more. No less. — Neil Gaiman

It's a good thing to be a god," said Shadow. "Is it?" asked Wednesday, — Neil Gaiman

Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies? I — Neil Gaiman

Already it was beginning to feel like something that happened to somebody else, a long time ago. — Neil Gaiman

Did that happen?" asked Shadow. "Did what happen, shit-for-brains?" asked Mr. Nancy. "The hall. The fire. Tiger balls. Riding the Carousel. — Neil Gaiman

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human. — Neil Gaiman

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. — Neil Gaiman

Go," said Wednesday, his voice a reassuring growl. "All is well, and all is well, and all shall be well. — Neil Gaiman

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." — Neil Gaiman

That's an Anansi story. 'Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one. — Neil Gaiman

You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman. — Neil Gaiman

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. — Neil Gaiman

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway. — Neil Gaiman

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. — Neil Gaiman

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous. — Neil Gaiman

His hair was dark and his eyes were dark and he wore black leather gloves of the thinnest lambskin. — Neil Gaiman

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women. — Neil Gaiman

Darling? This is Ursula Monkton, — Neil Gaiman

You're fucked up, mister. But you're cool." "I believe that's what they call the human condition, — Neil Gaiman

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. — Neil Gaiman

All your tomorrows start here. — Neil Gaiman

I loved to love what she loved. — Neil Gaiman

FORBIDDEN BRIDES OF THE FACELESS SLAVES IN THE SECRET HOUSE OF THE NIGHT OF DREAD DESIRE — Neil Gaiman

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time. — Neil Gaiman

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. — Neil Gaiman

He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur but he'll be there. — Neil Gaiman

He was not afraid. Not any more. Fear had died on the tree, as Shadow had died. There was no fear left, no hatred, no pain. Nothing left but essence. — Neil Gaiman

He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear; — Neil Gaiman

I'm not scared of falling,' he told himself. 'The bit I'm scared of is the bit where you stop falling, and start being dead. — Neil Gaiman

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. — Neil Gaiman

There are choices," she thought, when she had sat long enough. "There are always choices. — Neil Gaiman

In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day. — Neil Gaiman

They say that cigarettes will kill you, eventually. Fine. That's just fine. I only wish they'd do it faster. — Neil Gaiman

The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them. — Neil Gaiman

For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars. — Susanna Clarke

..and the truth us not what people want to hear. It's a bad thing, and it troubles people. — Neil Gaiman

That's what I said," said the cat. — Neil Gaiman

Everything waited. The night was ending. The world was holding its breath, preparing to begin again. — Neil Gaiman

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways. — Neil Gaiman

But time heals. Or at least it forms scabs. — Neil Gaiman

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable. — Neil Gaiman

Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt. — Neil Gaiman

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011] — Neil Gaiman

I am NOT alone. I am accompanied by a large cat and a small girl. — Neil Gaiman