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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Spirit
Take
World
Reflection
Lies
Inside
Lying

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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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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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Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
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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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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 find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
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Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
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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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There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
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I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.
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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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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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Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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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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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
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