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Quotes from Trigger Warning — Neil Gaiman

born 1960 England

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Jerusalem, thought Morrison, was like a deep pool, where time had settled too thickly.

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People would fight over who owns a poisonous desert, if that desert was Jerusalem.

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Life is life, and it is infinitely better than the alternative, or so we presume, for nobody returns to dispute it. Such is my motto.

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Still, no use crying over unspilt milk, and you can’t mend an omelette without unbreaking a few eggs.

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“Come to Jerusalem and go mad,” said Morrison. “Not much of an advertising slogan.”

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“There are those who think it’s devil worship,” said Oliver. “And I think they are wrong. But then, one man’s god is another’s devil. Eh?”

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“Were you always like this?”
“Like what?”
“A madman. With a time machine.”
“Oh, no. It took ages until I got the time machine.”

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Writers live in houses other people built.

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“See?” said the boy. There was that precocious amusement again; but all kids can be insufferable sometimes, when they think they know something you don’t. It’s probably good for them.

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Learning how to be strong, to feel her own emotions and not another’s, had been hard; but once you learned the trick of it, you did not forget.

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There’s no Hell to spite the sinners.
There’s no Heaven for the blessed. God is not what you imagine.

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What we read as adults should be read, I think, with no warnings or alerts beyond, perhaps: enter at your own risk.

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We are mature, we decide what we read or do not read.

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Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking.

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In May I received an anonymous Mother’s Day card. This puzzled me. I would have noticed if I had ever had children, surely?

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Local gossip travels faster than light.

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I grew up loving and respecting short stories. They seemed to me to be the purest and most perfect things people could make: not a word wasted, in the best of them.

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He was demonstrating to the world the writing was a craft, that it was not an act of magic.

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He was kind, and gentle, with that midwestern niceness that’s a positive thing rather than an absence of character.

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“You are wrong. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one only, and that way is treacherous and hard, and if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.”

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Neil Gaiman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.