Charles de Lint quotes - page 2

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again. (Charles de Lint)
Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn. View quote
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. View quote
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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths. View quote
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Compromise is necessary,” Max agreed, "so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself. View quote
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Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. View quote
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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. View quote
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. View quote
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The best artists know what to leave out. View quote
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of. View quote
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It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun. (Charles de Lint)
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. View quote
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Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. View quote
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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference. View quote
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It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer. View quote
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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. View quote
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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. View quote
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That dichotomy between who she was and who she thought she should be was what really killed her. View quote
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What I've got to talk about, I don't think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer. View quote
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You're not a nun, are you? You haven't taken one of those absurd vows that cut you off from what otherwise might be a full and healthy human existence? View quote
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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. (Charles de Lint)
If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are. View quote
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Nothing's different, but everything has changed. View quote
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Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. And this I will tell you as well: One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none. View quote
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused. View quote
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