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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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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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If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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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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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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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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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.
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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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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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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
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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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It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.
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Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
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