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Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
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Writer
Samuel M. Key
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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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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.
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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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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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