"The puppet thinks: It's not so much what……" — Charles de Lint
"The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me."
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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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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
— John James Audubon
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher…
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is…
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
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God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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