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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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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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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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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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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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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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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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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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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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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.
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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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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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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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I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
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