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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.
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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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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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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Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
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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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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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The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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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 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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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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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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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.
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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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The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.
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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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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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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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