"If you don't believe that the world has……" — Charles de Lint
"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 what you're doing to it."
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Charles de Lint
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189 Quotes by Charles de Lint
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An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space…
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.
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The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
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The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
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We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
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Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a…
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What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know…
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One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
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Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
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There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
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