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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Wisdom
Knowledge
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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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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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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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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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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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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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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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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