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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
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Samuel M. Key
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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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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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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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 think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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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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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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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 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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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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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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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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... 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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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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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