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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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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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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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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
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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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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
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It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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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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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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