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Find what you want. I will find you.

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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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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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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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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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