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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
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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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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?
Charles de Lint
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
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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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Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.
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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.
Charles de Lint
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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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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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles de Lint
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
Charles de Lint
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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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.
Charles de Lint
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
