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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

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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
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Fun
Two
Live
Cheaply
Much
Owner
Cats
Owners
Twice

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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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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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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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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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