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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of 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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It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
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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, 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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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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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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The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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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 excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
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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'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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Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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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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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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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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