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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Steeped
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Fields
Honor
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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.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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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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