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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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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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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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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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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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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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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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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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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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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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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