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Lloyd Alexander

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

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"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."

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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"

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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."

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"The greatest treasures are books."

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"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."

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"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."

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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."

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"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."

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"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

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"After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published."
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"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."
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"There's this huge number of desperate people."
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"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings."
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"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
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"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States."
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"After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college."
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"I loved all the world's mythologies."
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"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."
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"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
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