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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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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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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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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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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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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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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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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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