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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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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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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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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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