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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
Charles de Lint
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
Charles de Lint
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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It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
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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?
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
Charles de Lint
A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
Charles de Lint
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
Charles de Lint
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Charles de Lint
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint
I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
Charles de Lint
I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
Charles de Lint
[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
Charles de Lint
Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
Charles de Lint
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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