I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
NEIL GAIMANBeing 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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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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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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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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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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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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