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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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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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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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