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#1

“A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They’re afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool’ for the rest of their lives, until they’re dead—then they’re really cool.”
― Mark Helprin

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#2

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: authenticity

1812 likes

#3

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
― John Dewey

tags: happiness

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#4

“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

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#5

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand

tags: kindness

2156 likes

#6

“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

tags: emotion, intensity, laughter, loneliness, lonely-people

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#7

“They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

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#8

“He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

tags: love

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#9

“They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

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#10

“She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

tags: beautiful

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#11

“Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

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#12

“The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

tags: truth

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#13

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

11117 likes

#14

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

6455 likes

#15

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#16

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: books

4691 likes

#17

“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
― Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic

tags: haunting, life, mind, stories, youth

2638 likes

#18

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

2908 likes

#19

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, favorite-books

1610 likes

#20

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, gifts

1451 likes

#21

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: inside, looks, people, true-nature

1659 likes

#22

“Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: monsters, scared

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#23

“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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#24

“And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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#25

“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

tags: adventures, comfort, contrast, freedom, meals, pain

766 likes

#26

“People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: belief

733 likes

#27

“You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'

'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: apocalypse, death, hells-angels, humor

701 likes

#28

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: travel, you

797 likes

#29

“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.
I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: books

420 likes

#30

“The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: literary

428 likes

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