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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.
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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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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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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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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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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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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 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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Who but lovers dream alike?
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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