We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMANThis 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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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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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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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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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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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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.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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