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World Quotes by Charles de Lint
- An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that…
- The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
- One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
- 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…
- The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
- If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider…
- 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 wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is
- 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.
- As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right…
- 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…
- I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really…
- I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie…
- I don't think the world works on merit.
- I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the…
- It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself,…
- Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a…
- What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
- I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
- Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
- 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…
- Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
- 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…
- When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be,…
- I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close…
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- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
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