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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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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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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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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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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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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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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