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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.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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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.
Charles de Lint
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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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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It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
Charles de Lint
The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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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?
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
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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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When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.
Charles de Lint
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
Charles de Lint
The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
Charles de Lint
Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.
Charles de Lint
Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
Charles de Lint
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
Charles de Lint
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
Charles de Lint
She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
Charles de Lint
