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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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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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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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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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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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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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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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