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We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
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The Lost Music was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.
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You can talk all you want about consensual reality, Jilly, but that doesn't change the fact that some things are real and some things aren't. There's a line drawn between the two that separates reality from fantasy.
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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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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
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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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Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.
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Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
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While you live … you have a duty to life. … The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. … Otherwise they fade away.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.
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I don't know why I care what people write about me after I'm dead, except that since I invest so much of my time telling the truth in my fiction, I'd hate to see someone play fast and loose with the pieces of my life. I don't care what they might think of me; but I don't want lies about my life used to invalidate the stories. My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.
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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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The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.
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We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.
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I can't imagine it now, but I must've been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don't just get itself born bad, do it?
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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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If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?
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Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
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What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.
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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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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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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