Charles de Lint Quotes

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• Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

  Charles de Lint

  Healing, Beautiful Life, Stories

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• I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Nature, Believe

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• It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

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  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

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• Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.

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  Lying, Light, Choices

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• You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

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  Life, Spiritual, Finding Yourself

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• I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspirational, Thinking, Insperational

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• I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.

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  Stars, Heart, Tree

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• Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.

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  Giving, Important, Different

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

  Charles de Lint

  Friendship, Heart, People

  "The Ivory and the Horn: A Newford Collection". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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

  Charles de Lint

  Life, Real, Thinking

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

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  Looks, Answers, Guessing

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• Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspiration, Dark, Light

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

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  Different, Invisible

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

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  Heart, Broken, Car

  Charles de Lint (2009). “The Mystery of Grace”, p.235, Macmillan

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• The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

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  Life, Kindness, Magic

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• You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Teaching, Use

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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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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  Lying, Night, Blue

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.190, Macmillan

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• But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

  Charles de Lint

  Hurt, Responsibility, Dark

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• We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

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  Jobs, Cutting, Editing

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

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  Mean

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• If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.

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  Children, People, Magic

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.435, Macmillan

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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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  Lying, Skins, Needs

  Charles de Lint (2009). “The Mystery of Grace”, p.260, Macmillan

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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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  Would Be, Dull, Mystery

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", 1996.

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• An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

  Charles de Lint

  Song, Years, Space

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