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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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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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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 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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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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There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
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What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
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Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are
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Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
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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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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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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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