Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Other Quotes by "Neil Gaiman"

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.
— Neil Gaiman Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter
Tags: humor
He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
— Neil Gaiman Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter
Tags: humor
Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches. Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys...
— Neil Gaiman Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter
Tags: humor, contracts
She would be quite bright, if she was ever put in a position to find out, but long ago found that being a scatterbrain, as she'd put it, give you an easier journey through life.
— Neil Gaiman Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter
Tags: learning, intelligence, happiness, bright
America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.
— Neil Gaiman Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter
Tags: death, america
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