Neil Gaiman: Frasi in inglese

Neil Gaiman è fumettista, scrittore e giornalista britannico. Frasi in inglese.

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“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”

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Neil Gaiman libro The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Origine: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Chapter 6 (p. 74)

“I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.”

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Neil Gaiman libro The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Origine: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Chapter 6 (p. 69)

“I knew enough about adults to know that if I did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway. Why would they believe me about something so unlikely?”

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Neil Gaiman libro The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Origine: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Chapter 3 (p. 37)

“And our latest project was Death. It’s one of the hard ones—one of the big ones, too, I suspect. Possibly it may even become the attribute that’s going to define the Creation for the Created: If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning—a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross...”

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Neil Gaiman libro Smoke and Mirrors

Murder Mysteries (p. 312)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)

“Even the better protected files corrupt,
and the best protected corrupt absolutely.”

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Neil Gaiman libro Smoke and Mirrors

Cold Colors (p. 239)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)

“It was also, they added, Very Now, which was important in a town in which an hour ago was Ancient History.”

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Neil Gaiman libro Smoke and Mirrors

The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories (p. 107)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)

“It can’t make things any worse.”

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Neil Gaiman libro Fragile Things

“If there’s one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse,” said my friend.
From A Study in Emerald
Fragile Things (2006)

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

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Origine: The Kindly Ones (v češtině Blahovolné) ze série Sandman