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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

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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
Whatever
Comes
Something
Seizes
Seize
Along

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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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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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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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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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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.
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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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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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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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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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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