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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and...
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Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician....
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I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend ...
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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience ...
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its ...
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, a...
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Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays inv...
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I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the peopl...
CHARLES DE LINT

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you...
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet an...
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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, ...
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You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
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There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not nee...
CHARLES DE LINT One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the m...
CHARLES DE LINT Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that y...
CHARLES DE LINT The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
CHARLES DE LINT Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything we...
CHARLES DE LINT Wondering's healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilitie...
CHARLES DE LINT A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and m...
CHARLES DE LINT The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
CHARLES DE LINT There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
CHARLES DE LINT The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way fo...
CHARLES DE LINT If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?
CHARLES DE LINT That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays in...
CHARLES DE LINT As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so r...
CHARLES DE LINT Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered,...
CHARLES DE LINT Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
CHARLES DE LINT The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of i...
CHARLES DE LINT Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
CHARLES DE LINT I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
CHARLES DE LINT The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
CHARLES DE LINT The best artists know what to leave out.
CHARLES DE LINT I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see,...
CHARLES DE LINT What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you do...
CHARLES DE LINT There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories ...
CHARLES DE LINT We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possib...
CHARLES DE LINT Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing th...
CHARLES DE LINT I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
CHARLES DE LINT It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and ha...
CHARLES DE LINT As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about...
CHARLES DE LINT We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. No...
CHARLES DE LINT I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
CHARLES DE LINT The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can
CHARLES DE LINT There's never an easy route to the things that matter.
CHARLES DE LINT Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and ...
CHARLES DE LINT I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off,...
CHARLES DE LINT T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surr...
CHARLES DE LINT I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy an...
CHARLES DE LINT There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
CHARLES DE LINT Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms mov...
CHARLES DE LINT One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday set...
CHARLES DE LINT Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If ...
CHARLES DE LINT As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is a...
CHARLES DE LINT When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider...
CHARLES DE LINT A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's n...
CHARLES DE LINT I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.
CHARLES DE LINT Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories th...
CHARLES DE LINT I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it...
CHARLES DE LINT Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fette...
CHARLES DE LINT I've always been interested in the outsider.
CHARLES DE LINT Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU One cannot govern with 'buts'.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other tha...
CHARLES DE GAULLE I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, t...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
CHARLES DE GAULLE To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the...
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than...
CHARLES DE GAULLE No nation has friends only interests
CHARLES DE GAULLE Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things...
CHARLES DE GAULLE In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfa...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The love of democracy is that of equality.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society ...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. S...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerte...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so muc...
CHARLES DE GAULLE There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country th...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLE You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLE France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLE It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who tak...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy,...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Libert...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are alread...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU You'll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much...
CHARLES DE GAULLE In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shap...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
CHARLES DE GAULLE No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magi...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, cell...
CHARLES DE GAULLE In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same ti...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future gener...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a stron...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies wi...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
CHARLES DE GAULLE To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on bor...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Nails can be varnished, But they also claw. (Ongles peuvent être vernis, - Mais ils griffent aussi....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Judas did not make only one kiss. (Judas n'a pas fait qu'une seule bise)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Shoe strangles the foot. But it advances. (La chaussure étrangle le pied. - Mais elle fait avancer)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Close the door by leaving." Close the mouth by dying ... ("Ferme la porte en partant." - Ferme la bo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The black clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe. (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A kiss on one cheek makes her blush both cheeks. (Un bisou sur une joue - Fait rougir les deux joues...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur - Autant que la mâchoir...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE A heart of stone is a sculpture? (Un cœur de pierre - Est une sculpture ?)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Binoculars see from far when near the eyes. Far from self, near the heart, in love. (Les jumelles vo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatalit...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Kissing hides the lips; but shows our love. (S'embrasser cache les lèvres ; - Mais montre notre amo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE One kiss, two lips. One love, two bodies. (Un baiser, ce sont deux lèvres. - Un amour, ce sont deux...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to ...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent - Le passé, non l'avenir)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The waves lie down on the beach; Your hair on your back of angel. (Les vagues s’allongent sur la p...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The medals of the dead heroes are the coins for the future. (Les médailles des héros morts - Sont ...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l...
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