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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
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Fall In Love Herself Rain Stop Thinking Time Yourself
All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
NEIL GAIMAN

Learning Philosophy 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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Friendship Love Myself Thinking
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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Crazy Myself
A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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Deep Human Philosophy Stars
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Philosophy See Sky World
I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
NEIL GAIMAN

Enjoyment Kind Myself Philosophy
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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Adventure Freedom. Pain Place
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Live One Liner Save Word
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Carry Deep Hell Myself Philosophy Thinking
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

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