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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

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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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Begun
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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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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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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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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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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