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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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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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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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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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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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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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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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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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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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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