“This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Magic" is simply a way of talking to the universe in a way that it cannot ignore.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“In an infinity of worlds, anything is not only possible, it's mandatory.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Hope when you've got nothing else, he once told us. But if you´ve got anything else, then for Heaven's sake, Do it!”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“All we really know of the universe is what filters in through our senses, and that isn’t a whole lot. Take the electromagnetic spectrum. It includes virtually every ripple of energy that powers the cosmos, from the long, lazy radio waves we communicate with through microwaves that we cook with all the way up to X-rays and gamma rays, which pack enough punch into their wavelengths to outshine an entire galaxy. All that majesty, all that infinite variety of energy, and all we see is a narrow little slice of it: seven measly colors. It’s like being invited to a royal banquet and then only being allowed to pick the crumbs off one plate.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“It's good to know where you are, but it's better to know where you're going.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“What good is a vocabulary that isn't used?”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“No problem,” I said with all the confidence of a lemming who thinks he’s headed for a nice day at the seashore.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Doesn't matter. You'll pick up what you need to know--cultural osmosis.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sympatizuji s bolestí jeho rozhodování. A někteří muži vypadají s vousy dobře," četl v mém obličeji otázku a pokračoval: "Takže nikdy nemusí stát proti sobě v zrcadle, když se holí.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“If we just told the story simply and easily, then even a television executive would be able to understand it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“There were bad guys on flying manhole covers after me, and a guy with an armored crotch and a mirrored face.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Supongo que las habrá más guapas, más listas o mejores en el instituto de Greenville, pero nunca me he molestado en mirarlas. Por lo que a mí respecta, Rowena es la única chica que existe; aunque, tras dos años de esfuerzos, todavía no he logrado convencerla de que soy algo más que un extra de segunda en la película de su vida.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sounds like you're trying to say that creation of new alternate worlds is a conscious decision.'
'I'm not trying to say it - I just said it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
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“The most seductive sin, I suppose, is passing judgment on others, and the next must be acting out of one's anger when one has the power to hurt the ones who wound us.”
― Nell Gavin, quote from Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn
“Nerves were on hair triggers, and if my virgin aunt had stepped out from behind those crates with a puppy in one hand and a baby in the other my guys would have capped her.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from The Dragon Factory
“Committing myself to the task of becoming fully human is saving my life now...to become fully human is something extra, a conscious choice that not everyone makes. Based on my limited wisdom and experience, there is more than one way to do this. If I were a Buddhist, I might do it by taking the bodhisattva vow, and if I were a Jew, I might do it by following Torah. Because I am a Christian, I do it by imitating Christ, although i will be the first to admit that I want to stop about a day short of following him all the way.
In Luke's gospel, there comes a point when he turns around and says to the large crowd of those trailing after him, "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple" (14:26). Make of that what you will, but I think it was his way of telling them to go home. He did not need people to go to Jerusalem to die with him. He needed people to go back where they came from and live the kinds of lives that he had risked his own life to show them: lives of resisting the powers of death, of standing up for the little and the least, of turning cheeks and washing feet, of praying for enemies and loving the unlovable.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, quote from Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
“Per il dolore, la felicità, l'amore non ci sono segni. E questo mi sembra di rara infelicità.”
― Christa Wolf, quote from Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
“❝Washington — perhaps as many global powers have done in the past — uses what I might call the “immaculate conception” theory of crises abroad. That is, we believe we are essentially out there, just minding our own business, trying to help make the world right, only to be endlessly faced with a series of spontaneous, nasty challenges from abroad to which we must react. There is not the slightest consideration that perhaps US policies themselves may have at least contributed to a series of unfolding events. This presents a huge paradox: how can America on the one hand pride itself on being the world’s sole global superpower, with over seven hundred military bases abroad and the Pentagon’s huge global footprint, and yet, on the other hand, be oblivious to and unacknowledging of the magnitude of its own role — for better or for worse — as the dominant force charting the course of world events? This Alice-in-Wonderland delusion affects not just policy makers, but even the glut of think tanks that abound in Washington. In what may otherwise often be intelligent analysis of a foreign situation, the focus of each study is invariably the other country, the other culture, the negative intentions of other players; the impact of US actions and perceptions are quite absent from the equation. It is hard to point to serious analysis from mainstream publications or think tanks that address the role of the United States itself in helping create current problems or crises, through policies of omission or commission. We’re not even talking about blame here; we’re addressing the logical and self-evident fact that the actions of the world’s sole global superpower have huge consequences in the unfolding of international politics. They require examination.”
― Graham E. Fuller, quote from A World Without Islam
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