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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.
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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding 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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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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