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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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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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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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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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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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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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