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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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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Going
Much
Way
Strayed
Odd
Weird
Seriously

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You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.
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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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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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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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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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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
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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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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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Don't start brooding about that, too, she says. Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting. -Lupita
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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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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
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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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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
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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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