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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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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.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
Lloyd Alexander
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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
Lloyd Alexander
Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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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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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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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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