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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?
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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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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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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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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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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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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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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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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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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