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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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Thinking
Puppet
Puppets
Thinks
Inside
Hands

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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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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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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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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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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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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
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I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.
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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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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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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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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
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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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