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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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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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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 don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.
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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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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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