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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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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
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Samuel M. Key
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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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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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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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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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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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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.
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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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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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'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 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.
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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.
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