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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.

Neil Gaiman

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Body Book Lose
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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Children Morning Myself Philosophy Travel
Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Kiss Win
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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Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
What do stars do? They shine.
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One Liner Shine Stars
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.
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Believe Happiness Live People Yourself
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Change Lost Rise True
There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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Herself Nature Rain Remember Try
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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Goodness Hell Writing
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Dream Lost Philosophy
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
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
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Fly Inspirational Kill Wake Up
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Philosophy See Sky World
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Philosophy Walk Yourself
She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
NEIL GAIMAN

Dance Darkness Eyes Simplicity Sky Stars

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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