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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Interesting
Times
Thrive
Chinese

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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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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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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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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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I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
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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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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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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 think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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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 past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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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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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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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