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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

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
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
NEIL GAIMAN

Library Right Worth
You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
NEIL GAIMAN

Inspirational Life One Liner Yourself
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
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
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN

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

Important People Trust Yourself
Even nothing can last forever.
NEIL GAIMAN

Forever Philosophy
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
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
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
NEIL GAIMAN

Book Live Myself One Liner
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
NEIL GAIMAN

Easy Myself Problem
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
Libraries are our friends.
NEIL GAIMAN

Friendship Library One Liner Ourselves

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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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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