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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
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Samuel M. Key
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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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As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
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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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... 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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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.
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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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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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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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