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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.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
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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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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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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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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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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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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.
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Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
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It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
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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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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 magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
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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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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't 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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