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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
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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.
Charles de Lint
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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As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
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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.
Charles de Lint
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
Charles de Lint
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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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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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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
Charles de Lint
I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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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.
Charles de Lint
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
Charles de Lint
All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
Charles de Lint
Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
Charles de Lint
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
