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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

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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Kids
Wanted
Life
Magical
Kingdom
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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
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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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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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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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The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.
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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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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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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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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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Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
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Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
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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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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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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.
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