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Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.
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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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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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All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
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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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How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.
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You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.
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You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.
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Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.
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The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore.
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There's more to life than just surviving... but... sometimes just surviving is all you get
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There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.
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The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.
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As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.
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Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
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We chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.
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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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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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When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.
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Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
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She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
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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'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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If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
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Charles de Lint
Born:
December 22, 1951
(age 72)
Bio:
Charles de Lint is a Canadian writer of Dutch origins. In 1974 he met MaryAnn Harris, and married her in 1980. They live in Canada.
Known for:
Moonheart (1984)
The Onion Girl (2001)
Memory & Dream (1994)
Someplace to Be Flying (1998)
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
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