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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
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Thrive
Chinese
Interesting

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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'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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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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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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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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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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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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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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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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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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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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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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
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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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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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