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Who but lovers dream alike?

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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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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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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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 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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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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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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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