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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9902a79 | Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman... | nothingness | Neil Gaiman | |
| 7d24d1f | It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4d0faa3 | We all have stories. Or perhaps it's because, as humans, we are already an assemblage of stories and the gulf that exists between us as people is that when we look at each other we might see faces, skin color, gender, race, or attitudes. But we don't see - we can't see the stories. And once we hear each other's stories, we realize the things we see as dividing us are all too often illusions; falsehoods. That the walls between us are, in tru.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 37e7ad9 | You have your milk," he said. "Where there is milk, there is hope." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 80428fd | CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional conte.. | humor sable-black sony-walkman good-omens famine | Neil Gaiman | |
| f26bc79 | Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice-cream. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6384ce4 | One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fung.. | death graveyard | Neil Gaiman | |
| 67994eb | It's a weird thing, writing. Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer's day. You can see every leaf on every tree, and hear the birdsong, and you know where you'll be going on your walk. And that's wonderful. Sometimes it's like driving through fog. You can't really see where you're going. You have just enough of the road in front of you to know that you'r.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1c61bde | Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them. | spider-bites spiders | Neil Gaiman | |
| eddc4f7 | To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7c46be1 | A voice from the creature, smooth as buttered oil. "He-llo," is said. "Ding-dong. You look remarkably like dinner." I'm Charlie Nancy," said Charlie Nancy. "Who are you?" I am Dragon," said the dragon. "And I shall devour you in one slow mouthful, little man in a hat." Charlie blinked. What would my father do? He wondered. What would Spider have done?... Er. You're bored with talking to me now, and you're going to let me pass unhindered," h.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4bb0591 | Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 755c156 | Not gay, just never met the right woman. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2f3c0af | You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 14535d2 | Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. | life mistakes | Neil Gaiman | |
| 45b125d | I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 467959f | It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these | fantasy m-is-for-magic fairytale neil-gaiman children | Neil Gaiman | |
| 770227e | For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b9fe802 | I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows. | mr-wednesday neil-gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8f929e8 | Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day; like sit-ups, they can make you thin | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 3498cf1 | Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had. Warren Lasher Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano Charles Deats or Keats | Lorrie Moore | ||
| c3828af | It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 16f5fdf | Handling an emotional crisis leads to greater wisdom and results in lifetime benefits. Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them. Once we have mastery over our feelings, our fear of life diminishes. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 0ac5b48 | Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| ad6bb37 | The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history--the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen | reality truth realist dreamer mistakes | Robert Greene | |
| b47bc0c | You must avoid at all cost the idea that you can manage learning several skills at a time. You need to develop your powers of concentration, and understand that trying to multitask will be the death of the process. | Robert Greene | ||
| 44702ad | Louis XI (1423-1483), the great Spider King of France, had a weakness for astrology. He kept a court astrologer whom he admired, until one day the man predicted that a lady of the court would die within eight days. When the prophecy came true, Louis was terrified, thinking that either the man had murdered the woman to prove his accuracy or that he was so versed in his science that his powers threatened Louis himself. In either case he had t.. | Robert Greene | ||
| 9555bd3 | Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 19888d8 | The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took | life | Dennis Lehane | |
| e2c3ebb | Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| b41a1cc | The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw" | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 1aed6dd | You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day. It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and somethin.. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| eca70be | Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you're doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out? You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone fo.. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| b91e863 | Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief. | labels milkweed self name | Jerry Spinelli | |
| aa36152 | I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you, my dear, you are too good for me.' -Charles to Emma, 1859 | way-to-be | Deborah Heiligman | |
| 6bb8634 | If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men. | politics government | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 8f712d8 | O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questi.. | mind | Julian Jaynes | |
| e63dfb6 | I can't beat you, I can't join you. | maturation outsiders | Harper Lee | |
| 7def932 | Fino al giorno in cui mi minacciarono di non lasciarmi piu leggere, non seppi di amare la lettura: si ama, forse, il proprio respiro? | Harper Lee | ||
| 66f1609 | Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 2c0ba8d | Is it my imagination, or is there some kind of jealousy thing going on here?"-Inuyasha (gives Inuyasha a really bad look)"It's your imagination."-Sango | jealousy sango miroku | Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子) | |
| 453910e | If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance. | Glen Cook | ||
| 4c76773 | What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 7e5b6c0 | Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters. | men | Emily Giffin |