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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Excitement
Findings
Finding
Next
Happens
Writing

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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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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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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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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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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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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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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.
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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
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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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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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You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.
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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 real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
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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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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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