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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.

Neil Gaiman

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Forget Impossible People Safety World
Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Live One Liner Save Word
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

Children Morning Myself Philosophy Travel
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
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Body Book Lose
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Deep End Happiness Philosophy
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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Goodness Hell Writing
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
NEIL GAIMAN

Courage Gain Inspirational Yourself
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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Easy Hard Word Writing Yourself
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Blind Ignorance One Liner
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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Book Fantasy Man Naked
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Courage Future Philosophy
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Important People Trust Yourself

You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.

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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.

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