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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.

Neil Gaiman

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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Easy Hard Word Writing Yourself
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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Life Myself Reality
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
Libraries are our friends.
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Friendship Library One Liner Ourselves
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
NEIL GAIMAN

Animal End Friendship Future Imagination Life Yourself
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
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Inspirational Life Pain Yourself
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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Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
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.
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Let Go Philosophy Yourself
Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Live One Liner Save Word
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy Secret World
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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Home Spiritual
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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Life Myself Teaching Worth
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.
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Dream Endurance Forget True
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
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

Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.

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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.

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