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Own Quotes by Charles de Lint
- The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn…
- I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing…
- My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into…
- 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…
- People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in…
- From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a…
- I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own…
- There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one…
- I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or…
- The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from…
- It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.
- I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon…
- All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov