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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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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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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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