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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Everything
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
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If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.
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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.
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Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight.
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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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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