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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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