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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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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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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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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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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
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