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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Witchery
Wizardry
Merely
Capable
Word

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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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You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.
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How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.
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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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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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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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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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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 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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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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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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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
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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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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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