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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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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
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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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As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.
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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
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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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I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
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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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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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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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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.
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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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