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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
Lloyd Alexander
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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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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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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
Lloyd Alexander
There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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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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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
Lloyd Alexander
My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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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.
Lloyd Alexander
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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