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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.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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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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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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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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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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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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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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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs. And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
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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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