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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

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
NEIL GAIMAN

Crazy Myself
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Myself Teaching Worth
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Goodness Lying Story True
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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Heart Kiss People Perfection See Touch
What do stars do? They shine.
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One Liner Shine Stars
It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Happiness Live People Yourself
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
NEIL GAIMAN

Book Live Myself One Liner
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Human Philosophy 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
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
NEIL GAIMAN

Adventure Freedom. Pain Place
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Dream Hope Memories People Reality 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
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
NEIL GAIMAN

Home Spiritual
You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Myself Philosophy True

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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