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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.

Neil Gaiman

I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
NEIL GAIMAN

Enjoyment Kind Myself Philosophy
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Book Greatness People Safety
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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Dream Goodness Hope Kiss Mad Magic Thinking
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
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
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy
Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Deep End Happiness Philosophy
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Animal Believe Deserve
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
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
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
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
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
Even nothing can last forever.
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Forever Philosophy
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

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