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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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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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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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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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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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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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