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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.

Neil Gaiman

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
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
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
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
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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Book Gift Greatness 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
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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One Liner Story Talk
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
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
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Important People Trust Yourself
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
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Inspirational One Liner Scare
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Book Live Myself One Liner
Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Animal Believe Deserve
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands

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