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Signal to Noise
Neil Gaiman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.”
“The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. ‘The world is always ending for someone,’ he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.”
“The world is always ending for someone.”
“We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.”
“You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.”
“I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured.”
“In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.”
“That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger." That's as maybe. But that which does kill us, kills us, and ain't that a bitch...”
“We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children...Where nobody dies...Where all it takes is cheap, easily available product -- a packet of salted peanuts or a new type of carpet cleaner -- to bring immediate, undiluted joy.”
“Mortality is a hard thing to face. 'That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger.' That's as maybe. But that which does kill us, kills us, and ain't that a bitch...How do you make sense of your life? Signal to noise: what's signal? What's noise?”
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