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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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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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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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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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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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.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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