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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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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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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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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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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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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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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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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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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