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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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May
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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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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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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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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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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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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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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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