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Quotes of the day from previous years:
The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.
There's no such thing as chance; And what to us seems merest accident Springs from the deepest source of destiny. |
~ Friedrich Schiller ~ |
Dare to be wise! Energy and spirit is needed to overcome the obstacles which indolence of nature as well as cowardice of heart oppose to our instruction. It is not without significance that the old myth makes the goddess of Wisdom emerge fully armed from the head of Jupiter; for her very first function is warlike. Even in her birth she has to maintain a hard struggle with the senses, which do not want to be dragged from their sweet repose. The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Content if they themselves escape the hard labor of thought, men gladly resign to others the guardianship of their ideas, and if it happens that higher needs are stirred in them, they embrace with a eager faith the formulas which State and priesthood hold in readiness for such an occasion. |
~ Friedrich Schiller ~ |
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best. |
~ Neil Gaiman ~ in ~ The Sandman ~ |
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. |
~ Neil Gaiman ~ in ~ The Sandman ~ |
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them. |
~ Neil Gaiman ~ in ~ American Gods ~ |
I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. … I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower. |
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov ~ |
We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different. |
~ Neil Gaiman ~ |
All writers … have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were — to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. |
~ Neil Gaiman ~ |
Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?" |
~ Neil Gaiman ~ |
The little folk dare anything … And they talks a lot of nonsense. But they talks an awful lot of sense, as well. You listen to 'em at your peril, and you ignore 'em at your peril, too. |
~ Neil Gaiman ~ in ~ Stardust : Being A Romance Within The Realm of Faerie ~ |
Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us. |
~ Neil Gaiman ~ in ~ Stardust : Being A Romance Within The Realm of Faerie ~ |
The world doesn’t have to be like this. Things can be different. … Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. |
~ Neil Gaiman ~ |
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Dr. Livingstone, I presume? ~ Henry Morton Stanley, uttered that day
If my dream was true, then everything we know, everything we think we know is a lie. It means the world's about as solid and as reliable as a layer of scum on the top of a well of black water which goes down forever, and there are things in the depths that I don't even want to think about. It means that we're just dolls. We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored. ~ Neil Gaiman (date of birth)
Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see,
My heart untraveled fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
~ Oliver Goldsmith (born November 10, ca. 1730)
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
All that is good is simple and all that is simple is good. ~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent. ~ Claude Rains
For he who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is in battle slain
Can never rise and fight again.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
For just experience tells; in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genus a better discerning.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Too fair to worship, too divine to love. ~ Henry Hart Milman
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. |
~ Neil Gaiman ~ |
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