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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.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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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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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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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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