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What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
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Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
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It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
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He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
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I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.
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Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
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Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
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I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.
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It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
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Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
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I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.
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Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.
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There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
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Evil can do anything, for a price.
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Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
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It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?
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There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.
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I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
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I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
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