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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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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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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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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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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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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