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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
Finally
Humanity
Story
Stories
Autobiography

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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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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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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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Who but lovers dream alike?
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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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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