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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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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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I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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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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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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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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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
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Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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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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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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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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