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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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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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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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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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