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We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Fit
Cutting
Incessantly
Pieces
Editing
Relationship
Suit
Particular
Circle
Friends
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Jobs
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