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Lloyd Alexander

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"If love has taken us for a ride and passion made us ignore sham and swindle, the time has come to separate the wheat from the chaff and polish up diamonds of trust, neatly, day by day. ['Taken for a ride']"

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"Some seem to be desynchronized in their relationships. They feel oppressed, because they cannot move forward together and at the same pace. Their thinking is often incongruent, their motivation disparate. The phone could be a mediator, as it creates an impression to be a perfect reliable friend. However, in the end, it causes rather a sense of isolation, since it divides more than it unites. Eventually it appears not to be such a good friend but only a ghost friend. ['Kein Schwein ruft mich an']"

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Amber Hurdle

"This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe."

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"Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long."

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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

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"I like your mind when it plays with mine. We harmonize, like a dirty sweet symphony."

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"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

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"My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist."

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Amber Hurdle

"Jake guessed Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when Henry pulled it on someone else " someone like the blonde ticket-seller."

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Amber Hurdle

"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."

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"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings."
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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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"Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers."
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"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."
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"King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur."
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