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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Neil Gaiman

People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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Deep Dream Hope Memories People Reality Thinking
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
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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Life Myself Teaching Worth
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
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
I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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Believe Myself Philosophy True
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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Deep Dream Heaven Hell Philosophy Power Spiritual
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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Fall In Love Herself Rain Stop Thinking Time Yourself
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Courage Future Philosophy
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
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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Book Myself Soul
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
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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Heart Kiss People Perfection See Touch
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Book Greatness People Safety
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Philosophy Walk 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.
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Failure Person Philosophy Right Woman
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Philosophy See Sky World
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
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Forget Impossible People Safety World
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
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.
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Deep Heart Love Vulnerable Yourself
You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Yourself
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
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

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

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