Lloyd Alexander Quotes
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
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Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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It took a lot of years of me on my own, coaching myself, to look in the mirror and love the reflection.
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My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.
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According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
