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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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 man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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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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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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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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