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I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
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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.
Charles de Lint
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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
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You’re not a nun, are you? You haven’t taken one of those absurd vows that cut you off from what otherwise might be a full and healthy human existence?
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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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If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
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A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it’s really a wheel.
Charles de Lint
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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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They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
Charles de Lint
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Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
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I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.
Charles de Lint -
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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When you’re invisible, no one can see that you’re different.
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Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles de Lint
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What I’ve got to talk about, I don’t think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer.
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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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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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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
Charles de Lint