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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.
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As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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