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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

Neil Gaiman

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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Poet Quite Winner Writing
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Break Dream Easy Heart People Weakness
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
NEIL GAIMAN

Library Right Worth
It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
NEIL GAIMAN

Let Go Philosophy Yourself
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep One Liner Philosophy
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
NEIL GAIMAN

God Myself Time
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
And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
NEIL GAIMAN

Failure Person Philosophy Right Woman
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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Deep Dream Heaven Hell Philosophy Power Spiritual
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem
You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
NEIL GAIMAN

Inspirational Life One Liner Yourself
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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Deep Goodness Lying Story True
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Book Live Myself One Liner
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
NEIL GAIMAN

Dream Endurance Forget True
Even nothing can last forever.
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Forever Philosophy
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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Philosophy Secret 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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