Canadian - Writer | December 22, 1951 -
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.
Charles de Lint
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I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
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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.
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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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The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
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The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
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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.
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
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The best artists know what to leave out.
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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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