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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Trying
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Invisible

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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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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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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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I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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