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Neil Gaiman

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
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Book Live Myself One Liner
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
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Inspirational Life Pain Yourself
Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Fight Library One Liner
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
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
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands
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
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
All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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Learning Philosophy Yourself
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself
Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Bravery Herself Scare 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
There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Blind Ignorance One Liner
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
And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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Failure Person Philosophy Right Woman
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.
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Children Morning Myself Philosophy Travel
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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Life Myself Teaching Worth
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Book Greatness People Safety
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
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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Alive Believe Deep Enjoyment Game Life Myself
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy

Black as night, sweet as sin.

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