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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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Samuel M. Key
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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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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.
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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 excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
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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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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
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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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I don't think the world works on merit.
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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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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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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
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I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.
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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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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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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 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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Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.
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