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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Always
Dreariness
Believable
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Righteousness

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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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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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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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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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