Charles de Lint - Lies Quotes

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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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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

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I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin Kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. … That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.

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Often, he says, what we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.

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