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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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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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Who but lovers dream alike?
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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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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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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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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