Charles de Lint Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 22, 1951

Topics

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I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.

Jeremy Scott

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If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

Andrew Wyeth

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I have respect for anyone who helps a creator put a great television show on the air.

John Landgraf

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Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

Stephen F. Lynch

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I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

Mickey Gilley

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Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.

Clint Smith

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I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.

Bonnie Langford

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I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

Brad D. Smith

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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

Antonio Munoz Molina

MoneyPeopleWorryEasyYouBold

The general public has been conditioned to think 'comics = superheroes' for as long as caped crusaders have been around - by critics, mass media, and Marvel and DC themselves, who have what you might call a vested interest.

Antony Johnston

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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

Annie Leibovitz

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