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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
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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