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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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