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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.

Neil Gaiman

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself
What do stars do? They shine.
NEIL GAIMAN

One Liner Shine Stars
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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Dream Goodness Hope Kiss Mad Magic Thinking
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
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
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
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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Deep Myself Run
You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Forever One Liner Stay Yourself
There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
NEIL GAIMAN

Blind Ignorance One Liner
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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Deep Dream Hope Memories People Reality Thinking
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
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 went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Myself Reality
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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Fall In Love Herself Rain Stop Thinking Time Yourself
All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
NEIL GAIMAN

Learning Philosophy Yourself

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