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Humanity’s whole unfortunate history is one long account of how we attack what we don’t understand, what’s strange to us.

— Charles de Lint

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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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