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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

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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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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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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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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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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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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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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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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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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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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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