Charles de Lint Short Quotes

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If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

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When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

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Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

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Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

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Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

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Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

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Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

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It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

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

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The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

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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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You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

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The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

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There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

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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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You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

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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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By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

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

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That dichotomy between who she was and who she thought she should be was what really killed her.

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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

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If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.

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

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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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One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

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It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

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