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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
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Writer
Samuel M. Key
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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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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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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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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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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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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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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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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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
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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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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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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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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.
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