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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.
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It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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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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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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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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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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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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We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.
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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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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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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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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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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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