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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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