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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 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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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...' 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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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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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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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
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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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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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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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Don't start brooding about that, too, she says. Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting. -Lupita
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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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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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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I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
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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 family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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