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It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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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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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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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
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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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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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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 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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Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
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She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
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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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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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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.
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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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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.
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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
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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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