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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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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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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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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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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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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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.
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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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The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.
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You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
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Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
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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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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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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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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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... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was.
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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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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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