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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
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Samuel M. Key
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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
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The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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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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Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
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You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
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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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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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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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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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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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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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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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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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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
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