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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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Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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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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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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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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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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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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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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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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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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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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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