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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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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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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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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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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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