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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
Inside
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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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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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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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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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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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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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But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
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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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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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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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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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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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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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