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

— Charles de Lint Memory and Dream (1994)

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If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Dreams Underfoot (1993)

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

Memory and Dream (1994)

Nothing’s different, but everything has changed.

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

The Ivory and the Horn (1995)

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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