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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Truth
Giving

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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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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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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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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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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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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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