Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
NEIL GAIMANAdventures 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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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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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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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Libraries are our friends.
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