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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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Catch
Mercy
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Smiting
Keep
Lucian
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Nodded
Tick
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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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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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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.
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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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