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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

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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
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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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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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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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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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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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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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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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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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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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