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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
Make
Thinking
Puppet
Puppets
Thinks
Inside
Hands
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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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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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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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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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 excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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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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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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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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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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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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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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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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