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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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If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.
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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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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?
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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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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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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.
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It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
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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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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these words are crap?). If you're too confident, you get an attitude that seeps through into your writing, affecting the characters and the story. If you're too uncertain, you'll never finish anything.
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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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