Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
NEIL GAIMANWhen 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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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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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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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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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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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.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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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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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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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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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.
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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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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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