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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Life
Surviving
Sometimes

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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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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.
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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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... 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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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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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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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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When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.
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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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Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.
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I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs. And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
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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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Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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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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