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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
Thrive
Chinese
Interesting
Times

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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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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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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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When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.
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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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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.
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Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
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Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
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Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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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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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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