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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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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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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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 know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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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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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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