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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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Pennsylvania
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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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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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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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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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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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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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