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For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

Libraries, Importance, Knowledge, Community, Preservation

For me closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your

For me closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your

For me closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your

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More Neil Gaiman Quotes

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”

Information, Libraries, Knowledge, Research, Resources

“Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn’t feel anything at all.”

Emotions, Repression, Feelings, Coping, Introspection

“I’m willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I’m also willing to make those mistakes that you’re going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.”

Public, Mistakes, Learning, Growth, Comfort Zone

“If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports.”

Hell, People, Purgatory, Airports, Metaphor

“Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.”

Science, Magic, Reality, Universe, Philosophy

“Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Whatever you’re scared of doing, Do it.”

Mistakes, Courage, Creativity, Growth, Exploration

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”

Stories, Truth, Lies, Creativity, Narrative

“Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.”

Respect, Gender, Discrimination, Wisdom, Advice

“I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn’t a proper place. I like in betweens.”

Airplanes, Travel, Adventure, Exploration, Liminality

“You got a lifetime. No more. No less.”

Life, Mortality, Perspective, Limitation, Brevity

“Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don't do that.”

Humor, Sleep, Writing, Authors, Warning

“As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.”

Aging, Family, Identity, Repetition, Perception

“You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer.”

Interview, Self-discovery, Reflection, Communication, Spontaneity

“I love stories where women save themselves.”

Women, Empowerment, Storytelling, Self Reliance, Feminism

“I’m somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination.”

Happiness, Journey, Perspective, Fulfillment, Growth

“Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life.”

Lies, Memory, Perception, Experience, Transformation

“Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”

Identity, Self-awareness, Existence, Meaning, Philosophy

“Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.”

Hard Work, Luck, Success, Effort, Fortune

“Recounting the strange is like telling one’s dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one’s entire day.”

Dreams, Storytelling, Emotions, Communication, Personal Experience

“God who knows all things, I have no prayer book and I do not know any prayers by heart. But you know all the prayers. You are God. So this is what I am going to do. I am going to say the alphabet, and I will let you put the words together.”

Faith, Prayer, Simplicity, Creativity, Spirituality