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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

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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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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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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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