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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
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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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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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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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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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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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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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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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