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I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

Neil Gaiman
Hurt, Nice, Trying

I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.

Neil Gaiman
Art, Hurt, Mean

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Neil Gaiman
Life, Happiness, Hurt
"The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten.

Neil Gaiman
Dream, Hurt, Memories

I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.

Neil Gaiman
Hurt, Real, Writing
"The Sandman. Issue #75: The Tempest". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.

Neil Gaiman
Hurt, Just Smile, Wonderful
Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.107, Hachette UK

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.

Neil Gaiman
Hurt, Father, Coraline
Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.54, A&C Black

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

Neil Gaiman
Hurt, Lying, Details
Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Three: 5 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.7, Harper Collins

You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

Neil Gaiman
Hurt, Hands, Okay

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

Neil Gaiman
Hurt, Adults, Said

I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.

Neil Gaiman
Hurt, Use, Stones
"Uncharted Waters: Joe Hill Explores Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Interview With Robin A. Rothman, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2013.

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