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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

Neil Gaiman

You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
NEIL GAIMAN

Important People Trust Yourself
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
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
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.
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Darkness Friendship Heart Hurt Imagination Leaving Love
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
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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Book Myself Soul
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Library Right Worth
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
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
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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Life Myself Reality
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
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Animal End Friendship Future Imagination Life Yourself
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Forget Impossible People Safety World
You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Yourself
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
NEIL GAIMAN

Courage Gain Inspirational Yourself

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

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