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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Adventure
Travel
Decided
Learn
Best
Writing
Way

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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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