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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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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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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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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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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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Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
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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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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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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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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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