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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Blue
Lies
Magic
Lying
Night
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Yellow

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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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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.
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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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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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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.
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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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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
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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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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
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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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Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
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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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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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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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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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