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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
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Samuel M. Key
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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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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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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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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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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
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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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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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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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Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
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The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
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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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It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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