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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

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

Life Myself Teaching Worth
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
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
NEIL GAIMAN

Death Reality Time
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
NEIL GAIMAN

Body Book Lose
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
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
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Heart Love Vulnerable Yourself
And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
NEIL GAIMAN

Failure Person Philosophy Right Woman
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMAN

Greatness Happiness Missing Myself
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy See Sky World
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem
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
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
NEIL GAIMAN

Hope Inspirational Mistake Myself
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
NEIL GAIMAN

Adventure Freedom. Pain Place

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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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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