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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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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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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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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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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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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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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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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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