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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Findings
Finding
Next
Happens
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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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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
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I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
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Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
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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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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight.
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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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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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