Charles de Lint Quotes
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
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My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.
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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.
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When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
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I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.
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My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that's not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better.
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My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife - I didn’t put up for that stuff just to come in second.
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Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a 'thing'; he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
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I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.
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You know I’m really relentless in my pursuits. I work really hard you know. I was searching for that thing, you know, that one thing that was going to be my passion.
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I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
