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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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