Charles de Lint Quotes - Page 2

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• Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

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  Art, Inspiration, Appreciate

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.137, Macmillan

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• There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

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  Years, Stories, Goes On

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

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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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• When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

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  Travel, Done, Spirituality

  "Greenmantle". Book by Charles de Lint (p. 322), 1998.

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

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  Mean

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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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  Inspirational, Goal, Doe

  "Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection. Romano Drom". Book by Charles de Lint (p. 118), 2003.

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• I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.

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  Lying, Twilight, Eye

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• We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

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  Believe, Loss, Fairy

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Moonlight & Vines”, p.382, Macmillan

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• That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

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  Magic, Invisible, Stills

  "Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection". Book by Charles de Lint, 2003.

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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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  Night, Shadow, Hiding

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

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  Hurt, Thinking, Live Your Life

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• Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

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  Choices, Accountability

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.471, Macmillan

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• It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

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  Love, Believe, Magic

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Moonlight & Vines”, p.374, Macmillan

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• The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

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  Sight, Fey, World

  "Into the Green". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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• The best artists know what to leave out.

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  Artist, Pigment, Best Artist

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, "Dream Harder, Dream True", 1996.

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• I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.

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  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

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  Life, Ideas, Appreciate

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Tapping the Dream Tree”, p.212, Macmillan

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• It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

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  Together, Stories, Braids

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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.

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  Art, Teaching, Use

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

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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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• Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

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  Tattoo, Heart, Skins

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• Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

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  Mirrors, Darkness, Looks

  "Dreams Underfoot". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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• Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused - hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.

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  Lying, Moving, Our World

  "The Little Country". Book by Charles de Lint, 1991.

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• Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

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  Ideas, Giving, Advice

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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.

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  Song, Years, Space

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