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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.

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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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Enchanter
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Lady
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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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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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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