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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

Charles de Lint

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

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I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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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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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs. And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
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... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was.
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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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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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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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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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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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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.
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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
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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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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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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