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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Poet
Loss
Better
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Theo
Lamented

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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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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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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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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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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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