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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
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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Think
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Parcel
Mad
Artistic
Genius

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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
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Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
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It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.
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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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