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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
Decided
Learn
Best
Writing
Way
Adventure
Travel

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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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Find what you want. I will find you.
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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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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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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.
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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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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 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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