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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Mood
Feeling
Actually
Better
Sometimes
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Good
Trick
Pretending

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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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