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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.

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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Inside
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Everybody
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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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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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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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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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Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
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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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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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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.
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I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.
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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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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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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's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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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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Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
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