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I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
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Samuel M. Key
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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