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American Gods quotes

Neil Gaiman

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“You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“But there’s none so blind . . . as those who will not listen.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Don’t start anything you’re not prepared to finish.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“One describes a tale best by telling the tale.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Even Nothing cannot last forever.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Not only are there no happy endings . . . There aren’t even any endings.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough . . . pretty soon you wouldn’t feel anything at all.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“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, American Gods
“Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are the masks behind which we see our own faces.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Liberty . . . is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than...” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not fooling a soul” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“The important thing to understand about American history . . . is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Call no man happy . . . until he is dead.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“America is like that. It's not good growing country for gods. They don't grow well here. They're like avocados trying to grow in wild rice country. ” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don’t knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know...” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“It doesn’t matter that you didn’t believe in us . . . We believed in you.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Mostly you are what they think you are.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“The house smelled musty and damp, and little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business” Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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