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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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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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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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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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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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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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