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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
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
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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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