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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.

Neil Gaiman

I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
NEIL GAIMAN

Enjoyment Kind Myself Philosophy
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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Adventure Freedom. Pain Place
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
NEIL GAIMAN

Book Gift Greatness World
Libraries are our friends.
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Friendship Library One Liner Ourselves
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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Goodness Hell Writing
Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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Darkness Friendship Heart Hurt Imagination Leaving Love
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Forget Impossible People Safety World
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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Greatness Happiness Missing Myself
Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep End Happiness Philosophy
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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God Myself Time
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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Crazy Myself
Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Bravery Herself Scare Yourself

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.

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