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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Neil Gaiman

I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
NEIL GAIMAN

Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
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
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
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Philosophy See Sky World
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Fight Library One Liner
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Book Live Myself One Liner
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
NEIL GAIMAN

Goodness Hell Writing
A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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Deep Human Philosophy Stars
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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Greatness Happiness Missing Myself
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Dream Lost 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
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Happiness Live People Yourself
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
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad

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