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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Magic
Around
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Still
Thing
Stays
Invisible

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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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If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.
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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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The best artists know what to leave out.
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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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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
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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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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
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I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.
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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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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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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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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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