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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

Charles de Lint

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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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I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
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Don't start brooding about that, too, she says. Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting. -Lupita
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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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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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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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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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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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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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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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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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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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