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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.

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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
Comical
Noble
Stupid
Loved
Beautiful

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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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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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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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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 more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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