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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Adventure
Travel
Decided
Learn
Best
Writing
Way

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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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