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Charles de Lint Quotes: It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.
         

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.


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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

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Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.



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I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.



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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 tell.



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There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.



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Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.





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