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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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Dying
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.
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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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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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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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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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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.
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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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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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