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Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
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Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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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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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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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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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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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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Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
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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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