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The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
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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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I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
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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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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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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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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?
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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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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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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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Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
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I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
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