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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Life
Meaning
Like
Simple
Keep
Art
Stills
Still
Hard
Work

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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.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.
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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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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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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.
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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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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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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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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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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.
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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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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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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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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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