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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Make
Magic
Different
Kind
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
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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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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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 was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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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...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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'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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