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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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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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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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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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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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