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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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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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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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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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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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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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