Charles de Lint - Time 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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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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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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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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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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