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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Surviving
Sometimes
Life

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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
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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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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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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 real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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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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As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
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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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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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