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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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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Sacrifice
Difficult
Enchantment
Manhood
Chose
Hero

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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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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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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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