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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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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.
Charles de Lint
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
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?
Charles de Lint
It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
Charles de Lint
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.
Charles de Lint
All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
Charles de Lint
There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
Charles de Lint
Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.
Charles de Lint
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.
Charles de Lint
It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
Charles de Lint
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles de Lint
One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
Charles de Lint
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
Charles de Lint