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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Magic
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Unused
Legend
Legends
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Myth

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The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
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It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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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.
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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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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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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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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 road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it.
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.
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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.
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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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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.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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