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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
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Cats
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Twice
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Fun
Two
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Cheaply

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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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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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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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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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