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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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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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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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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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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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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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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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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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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