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You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
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I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.
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You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.
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When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.
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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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I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs. And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
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Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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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 all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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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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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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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 family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
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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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The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.
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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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