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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
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Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Seize
Along
Whatever
Comes
Something
Seizes

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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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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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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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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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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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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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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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