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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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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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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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