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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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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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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.
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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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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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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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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Who but lovers dream alike?
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
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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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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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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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