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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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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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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
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... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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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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