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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
Lloyd Alexander
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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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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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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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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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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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 writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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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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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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