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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

Alan Garner

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I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because, although I couldn't sew, I could think.
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Born: October 17, 1934 (age 91)
Bio: Alan Garner OBE is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.
Known for:
  1. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960)
  2. The Owl Service (1967)
  3. Elidor (1965)
  4. Red Shift (1973)
  5. Boneland (2012)

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