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The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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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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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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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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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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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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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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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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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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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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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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Don't start brooding about that, too, she says. Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting. -Lupita
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
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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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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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