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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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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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I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.
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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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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
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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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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
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