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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
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Samuel M. Key
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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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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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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Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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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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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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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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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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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
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