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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Neil Gaiman

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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Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
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
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
He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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Deep Myself Run
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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Hope Inspirational Mistake Myself
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
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
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
You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Forever One Liner Stay Yourself
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
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
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
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Important People Trust Yourself
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

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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