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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Wizardry
Merely
Capable
Word
Witchery

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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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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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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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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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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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... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was.
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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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It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.
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I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
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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 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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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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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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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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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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
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