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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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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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Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
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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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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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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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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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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 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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Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.
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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.
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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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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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