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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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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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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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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.
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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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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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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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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'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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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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Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.
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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.
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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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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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The best artists know what to leave out.
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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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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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It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
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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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