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Inspirational Quotes by Charles de Lint
- We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.
- The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
- There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
- If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?
- But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the…
- Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences…
- You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
- It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
- Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.
- The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
- It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are
- 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.
- I've always been interested in the outsider.
- One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
- I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
- Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.
- I don't think the world works on merit.
- You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.
- When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.
- I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write…
- 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.
- By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
- 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…
- Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
- The best artists know what to leave out.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento