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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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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 it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.
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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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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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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
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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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Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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