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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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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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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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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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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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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I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.
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When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.
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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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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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Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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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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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
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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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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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