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Neil Gaiman

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
NEIL GAIMAN

Inspirational Life Pain Yourself
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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Friendship Love Myself Thinking
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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People Philosophy Reality True Yourself
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
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands
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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Dance Darkness Eyes Simplicity Sky Stars
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
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Dream Lost Philosophy
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Break Dream Easy Heart People Weakness
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
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
You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Change Philosophy Self Love Yourself
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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Life Myself Reality
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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Darkness Friendship Heart Hurt Imagination Leaving Love
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
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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Poet Quite Winner Writing
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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Home Spiritual
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Book Greatness People Safety
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
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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Greatness Happiness Missing Myself
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
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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Easy Hard Word Writing Yourself
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
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Courage Future Philosophy

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