Charles de Lint - Life Quotes

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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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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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

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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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Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

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Life's like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

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I love this world … That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was in when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.

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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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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

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There's more to life than just surviving... but... sometimes just surviving is all you get

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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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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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