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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Lives
Witch
Music
Walls
Firsts
Iron
First
Stone
Heart
Stones
Fettered
Mind
Musician
Tinker
Never
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Confine
Cold
Binds

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I don't think the world works on merit.
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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
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The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.
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I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.
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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
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... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was.
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I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.
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