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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
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Samuel M. Key
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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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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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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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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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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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
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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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It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
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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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If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.
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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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