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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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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 road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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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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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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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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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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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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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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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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