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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Story
Stories
Autobiography
Finally
Humanity

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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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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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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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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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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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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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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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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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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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