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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.

Lloyd Alexander

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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
People
Dinner
Worse
Eating
Coming
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Somebody
Stand
Chance

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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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