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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
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Samuel M. Key
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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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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
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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 past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
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Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
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Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.
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I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.
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Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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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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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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