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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Everybody
Lets
Start
Stranger
Interesting
Keeps
Things
Surprise
Piece
Pieces
Inside
Says
Brooding

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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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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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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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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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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 excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.
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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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Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
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I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.
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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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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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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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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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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
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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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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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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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