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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
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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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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs. And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
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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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As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
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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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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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The best artists know what to leave out.
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The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
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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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