Quote by Neil Gaiman (Brief Lives)

Quote by Neil Gaiman (Brief Lives)

"Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?"
"No."

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - Brief Lives

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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

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You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

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Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

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By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.

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For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

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For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

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"Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out."

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"I know," whispered Despair, in her distant, empty voice. "But I shall remember him."

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You mortals go about your work, your loves, your wars, as if your waking lives are all that matter.

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The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

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