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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Inside
Hands
Much
Make
Thinking
Puppet
Puppets
Thinks

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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.
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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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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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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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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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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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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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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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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
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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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