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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
Author
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Stupid
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Dull
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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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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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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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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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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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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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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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