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Charles de Lint Quotes

born 1951 Canada

Charles de Lint (born 22 December 1951) is a Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician.

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Random Charles de Lint quote

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When you’re invisible, no one can see that you’re different.

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

The only opinions they have are those that they’ve gotten from people on the TV. They think they’re informed, but all they’re doing is repeating the views of talk show hosts and news commentators.

Dreams Underfoot (1993)

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

Legend and myth are what we use to describe what we don't comprehend.

The Little Country (1991)

I love this world … That is what rules my life.

The Little Country (1991)

Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.

The Little Country (1991)

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Svaha (2000)

Life’s like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

You’re not a nun, are you? You haven’t taken one of those absurd vows that cut you off from what otherwise might be a full and healthy human existence?

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

Feel sorry for yourself, regret the things you’ve done and the things you’ll never get to do. But just remember that you aren’t what you were, but what you are now.

Greenmantle (1988)

“It scares me.”
“But only because you don’t understand. The unknown doesn’t have to be grim.”

Greenmantle (1988)

And just because she and her uncle were loaded, that didn’t automatically make them useless as human beings.

Moonheart (1984)

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

Memory and Dream (1994)

Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

The Little Country (1991)

I find that a lot of people have this thing about making crap romantic, the way they like to blur outlaws and heroes, the good with the bad.

Dreams Underfoot (1993)

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what’s real and what’s not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

What hole did people like that crawl out of?

Greenmantle (1988)

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

Greenmantle (1988)

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

Memory and Dream (1994)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles de Lint (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.