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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Arose
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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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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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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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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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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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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Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
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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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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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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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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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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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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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The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.
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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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