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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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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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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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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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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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 can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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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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