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

Neil Gaiman

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
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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Choice Life Path
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
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Animal End Friendship Future Imagination Life 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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Enough Goodness Heart Safety Yourself
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Library Right Worth
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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God Myself Time
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
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 believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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Alive Believe Deep Enjoyment Game Life Myself
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
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
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
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
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
I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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Enjoyment Kind Myself Philosophy
What do stars do? They shine.
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One Liner Shine Stars
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
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Live One Liner Save Word
Libraries are our friends.
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Friendship Library One Liner Ourselves
Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Kiss Win
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
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
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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Book Gift Greatness 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

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

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