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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.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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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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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs. And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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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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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
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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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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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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
Charles de Lint
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
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