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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
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Writing
Way
Adventure
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Decided

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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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There's this huge number of desperate people.
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Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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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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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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