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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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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Coming
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Somebody
Stand
Chance
People
Dinner
Worse
Eating

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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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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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