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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Going
Much
Way
Strayed
Odd
Weird
Seriously

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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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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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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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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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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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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
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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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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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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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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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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.
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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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The best artists know what to leave out.
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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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Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.
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