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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Bows
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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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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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