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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Something
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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