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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
Lloyd Alexander
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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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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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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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