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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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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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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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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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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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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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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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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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