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

Neil Gaiman

There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
NEIL GAIMAN

Blind Ignorance One Liner
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
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
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
NEIL GAIMAN

Goodness Hell Writing
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
NEIL GAIMAN

Courage Gain Inspirational Yourself
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Dream Endurance Forget True
It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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Let Go Philosophy Yourself
What do stars do? They shine.
NEIL GAIMAN

One Liner Shine Stars
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Dream Goodness Hope Kiss Mad Magic Thinking
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Darkness Friendship Heart Hurt Imagination Leaving Love
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Dream Heaven Hell Philosophy Power Spiritual
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Absence Devil Friendship Lost Season
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
NEIL GAIMAN

Library Right Worth
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Change Lost Rise True
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy Walk Yourself
Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Live One Liner Save Word
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Easy Hard Word Writing Yourself
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy Secret World
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!
NEIL GAIMAN

Book Gift Greatness World
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Angel Fall
You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Yourself
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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Deep Goodness Lying Story True
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Children Morning Myself Philosophy Travel
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
NEIL GAIMAN

Be Yourself One Liner

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