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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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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
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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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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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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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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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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