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  • Writer
  • born 1951
  • 196 quotes

Charles De Lint, a writer (born 1951), is quoted 196 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are World, Thinking, Magic and Believe.

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It was all cheese and applause.

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

I don't think the world works on merit.

The best artists know what to leave out.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

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

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

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

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

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

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

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

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

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

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

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

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

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

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

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

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

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

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.

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