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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Route
Routes
Easy
Matter
Things
Never

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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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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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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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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.
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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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Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight.
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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
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Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
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I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
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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 past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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