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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Skin
Skins
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Stories
Heart
Tattoos
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
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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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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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The best artists know what to leave out.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.
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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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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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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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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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It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
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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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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.
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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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