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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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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
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Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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 problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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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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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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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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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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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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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 think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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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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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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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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