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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

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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
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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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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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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Who but lovers dream alike?
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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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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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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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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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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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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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