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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

Lloyd Alexander

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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
Nourish
Imagination
Else
Everything

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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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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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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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