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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
Magic
Different
Kind
Believe
Make

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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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Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
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I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
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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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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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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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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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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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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 excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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