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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
Witchery
Wizardry
Merely
Capable
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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'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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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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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
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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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I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
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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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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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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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She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
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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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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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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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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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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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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