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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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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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Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
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Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.
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But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
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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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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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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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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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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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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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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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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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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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