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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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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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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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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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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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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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She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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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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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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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
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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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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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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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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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I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.
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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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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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