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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

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Things
Surprise
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Pieces
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Brooding
Everybody
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Stranger
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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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... 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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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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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 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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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
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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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Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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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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It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.
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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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I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.
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