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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
Writing
Excitement
Findings
Finding
Next
Happens

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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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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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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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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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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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Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.
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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
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I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
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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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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
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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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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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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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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was.
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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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