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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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