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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
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Nourish
Imagination
Else

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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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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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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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