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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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She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
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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 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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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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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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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How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.
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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.
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Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.
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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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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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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 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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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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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.
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