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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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
Finally
Humanity
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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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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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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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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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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
Who but lovers dream alike?
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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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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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