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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
Make
Thinking
Puppet
Puppets
Thinks
Inside
Hands
Much

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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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It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
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Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
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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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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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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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