Charles de Lint - Real 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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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

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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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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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The thing is … nothing's as easy as we'd like it to be. … And the real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

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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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