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“So be wise. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would. Now go, and make interesting mistakes. Make Interesting. Mistakes. Make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for you being here. Make good art.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Whatever you do, you have one thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art. And for me, and for so many of the people I have known, that's been a lifesaver. The ultimate lifesaver. It gets you through good times and it gets you through the other ones.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon
from which we watch for it.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. ”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Where would be the fun in making something you knew was going to work?”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do...Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn't matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art. Make it on the good days too.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“When things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“make YOUR art, do the stuff that only you can do...but the one thing you have that nobody else has, is you. Your voice, you remind, your story, your vision - so write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
― E.B. White

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If you don't know it's impossible,it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up the rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

“...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life... My precept is, "Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something".”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Let us be elegant or die!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women