Neil Gaiman American Gods Quotes

#1. My last girlfriend was Greek," said the Iceman. "The shit her family ate. You would not believe. Like rice wrapped in leaves. Shit like that.

Neil Gaiman

#2. There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

Steve Forbert

#3. Brothers in Art: a friendship so complete

Alfred Tennyson

#4. 'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

Neil Gaiman

#5. American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

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#6. Anything electronic seemed fundamentally magical to Shadow, and liable to evaporate at any moment.

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#7. Mister whoever-the-fuck you are," said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, "there isn't enough money in the world.

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#8. A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

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#10. Women survive their men. Men
men like him
don't live long when their women are gone. You'll see
he'll just start wandering, all the familiar things are going to be gone with her. He gets tired and he fades and then he gives up and then he's gone.

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#11. As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

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#12. Talent without tact is only half talent.

Horace Greeley

#13. It's all about the dominant fucking paradigm, Shadow.

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#14. It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

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#15. 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. It's what we do.

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#16. He started to list the coin vanishes he had mastered, which reminded him of the coin he had tossed into Laura's grave, and then, in his head, Audrey was telling him that Laura had died with Robbie's cock in her mouth, and once again he felt a small hurt in his heart.

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#17. You only get to be my age by assuming the worst." Mr. Wednesday, American Gods

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#18. Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

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#19. I've been with Dane for four years," I managed to say. "He understands me in a way you don't."
"I can learn you."
-Ella & Jack

Lisa Kleypas

#20. And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.

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#21. They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's evil twin," said Wednesday. "Frank Lloyd Wrong.

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#22. ruin is not the invention of the mirror.

Anonymous

#23. When you judge others you reveal your inability to see them through God's eyes.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

#24. I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.

Aubrey McClendon

#25. Though I don't have any serious argument with Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', I believe that Americans cease to be Europeans - the land makes them become Americans. You see it happening all the time when you travel around America.

Michael Moorcock

#26. One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.

Neil Gaiman

#27. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.

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