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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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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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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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Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
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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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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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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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It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.
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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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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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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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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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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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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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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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