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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.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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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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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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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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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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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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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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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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