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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

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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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Men
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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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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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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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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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
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