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December 9, 2012

Quote – Writing Helps Us Make Sense Of Things

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December 4, 2012

Quote – Story Creatures Unleashed On Humanity

“These story creatures remain caged inside our heads and our souls, until we write them into freedom, releasing them into the world, unleashing them on an unsuspecting humanity.” -Douglas Smith – “Author’s Introduction” to Chimerascope

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December 2, 2012

Quote – Adolescence a Universe All By Itself

“Any time I feel like I’m starting to adjust to this world, I can count on her to remind me there are depths of weirdness I haven’t explored yet. Adolescence is another universe all by itself.” -DD Barant Death Blows (St Martin’s, 2010)

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November 28, 2012

Quote – Fiction Tells Emotional Truths

“The lies in fiction are such an effective way to tell emotional truths.” -Charles de Lint – the Fields Beyond the Fields. In The Very Best of Charles de Lint.

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November 26, 2012

Quote – Huddling Together Against The Vastness of Space

“I hear there are some quadrants where the residents sleep in a single tangled mass, all together, as though the proximity gives their small human bodies more weight when measured against the vastness of space outside these thin metal walls” -Camille Alexa – Children of the Device (In Here Be Monsters: Tongues and Teeth: Issue Seven, 2012)

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November 23, 2012

Quote – Think of History Like Friends You Know

“You have to think of it like friends you know. History is just the story of different people you know.” -Jerome Stueart – One Nation Under Gods (Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories)

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November 20, 2012

Quote – Fighting Over What We Won’t Be Here To Use

“There are still wars, because we haven’t quite outgrown our stupidity… Why fight over what you won’t be here to use.” -Catherine MacLeod – Hydden (in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories)

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November 18, 2012

Quote – Shadows Are My Thoughts

“One can gaze directly at the sun here, and then contemplate the blurry outline of shadows that it casts so feebly. The shadows are my thoughts.” – Terence M. Green – The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind  (In Tesseracts)

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November 16, 2012

Quote – Carrying Anything Of Worth In Your Head

“Anything he had of worth, he carried around in his head.” -Charles de Lint – Old Man Crow  In The Very Best of Charles de Lint.

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November 14, 2012

Quote – Ancestors

“The same earth you are standing on has been stood on by generations of your ancestors. The air you breathe, even these trees you don’t notice, have been touched and climbed by those that came before you. That rock you were sitting on, how many behinds have sat there, watching the sun set?” -Drew Hayden Taylor – The Night Wanderer

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