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.
NEIL GAIMANAdventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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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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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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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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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.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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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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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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