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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.

Neil Gaiman

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Heart Love Vulnerable Yourself
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy Walk Yourself
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
NEIL GAIMAN

Heart Kiss People Perfection See Touch
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
Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep End Happiness Philosophy
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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Absence Devil Friendship Lost Season
Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Live One Liner Save Word
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Dream Lost Philosophy
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMAN

Greatness Happiness Missing Myself
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Forget Impossible People Safety World
You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
NEIL GAIMAN

Enough Goodness Heart Safety Yourself
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
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Fly Inspirational Kill Wake Up

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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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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