Tag: Charles de Lint

May 8, 2013

Quote – Without Stories, People Lose Touch with Themselves

“It’s all machines now. It’s a – what do they call it? – high tech world. Fascinating to be sure, but… it estranges many people, cheapens the human experience. There’s no more room for the stories that matter, and that’s wrong, for stories are a part of the language of dream – they grow not from one writer, but from...

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May 3, 2013

Quote – People Who Make Other People Feel Good

“There were people who just made other people feel good. Just being around them, made you feel better, creative, uplifted, happy…. She tried to be, but she was subject to the same bad moods as anybody else, the same impatience with stupidity and ignorance which, parenthetically speaking, were to her mind the prime causes of all the world’s ills.” -Charles...

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March 31, 2013

Quote – Life is an act of Magic

“Life’s an act of magic, too…. Without magic – or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom – nothing has any depth. It’s all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there’s more to everything than that, whether it’s a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.” -Charles...

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March 27, 2013

Quote – Trees Enjoying You Walking Through Them

“I could feel the forest enjoying your walking through it. It was like the trees knew you.” -Charles de Lint – Mulengro (Orb 2003)

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February 9, 2013

Characters in Books Become Real in the Otherworld

A Review of Charles de Lint’s Spirits in the Wires By Derek Newman-Stille In his Spirits in the Wires, Charles de Lint expresses something that I have wished to be true since I was a child: that the characters that we read in books become real through our collective imagination. De Lint’s Otherworld and the In-Between, standing between our world...

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January 29, 2013

Quote – Everything has a Voice

“Everything’s got a voice. You just have to learn how to hear it.” -Charles de Lint – Pal o’ Mine In The Very Best of Charles de Lint.

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January 28, 2013

Dragonville

A review of Charles de Lint’s The Painted Boy (Viking, 2010) By Derek Newman-Stille Charles de Lint often takes his readers into the hidden parts of the world and brings attention to the things that people ignore in the world around them, whether that be the fantastic side of the world and the potential for a magical viewpoint or attention...

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January 19, 2013

Quote – Hope For The Future That Imagination Reaches Beyond The Present

“That’s our only hope for the future, isn’t it? That the imagination reaches beyond the present to glimpse not so much a sense of meaning in what lies all around us, but to let us simply see it in the first place?” -Charles de Lint – The Conjure Man In The Very Best of Charles de Lint.

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January 14, 2013

Quote – People More Capable of Evil Than Creatures From Legend

“Men were far more capable of evil and cruelty than any creature out of legend.” -Charles de Lint – Mulengro (Orb 2003)

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December 9, 2012

Quote – Writing Helps Us Make Sense Of Things

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