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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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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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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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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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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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