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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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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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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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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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