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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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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
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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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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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The best artists know what to leave out.
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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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I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
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It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
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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.
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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.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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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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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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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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